Trapped in Purgatory (Dark-Erotic D&D 5.0 Adventure - Closed!)

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We're slowly starting things up, currently still accepting applications! ->
Out of Character stuff!

Campaign thread!

Approved characters go here

Gameplay stuff!:
Pace/Activity: Pretty Fast yo! Please don't apply if you answer a question of 'how often can I post' With > a week on a regular basis. Ofc RL happens, but I'll retain the right to bop people on the nose for long unannounced disappearances.
Scope: Medium This wont be over in a few weeks, but I don't plan for it to last several years either. A few good months of fun, then we'll see how we do and if everyone's still on board.
Erotic content: Kinda Frequent yo! While focused on telling a story, this campaign will be a journey that also dives into perverted desires made manifest.
What to expect? more on the Extreme non-con based on site-standards, this is not because I plan gore or bathroom play, but we are dealing with arguably disturbing/depressing themes by design and Strange creatures will try to dominate or mislead you, trying to corrupt your innocent souls(tm). Everything else will depend on player individual likes. I'm personally not a fan of pain and torture so expect none of that. Do however expect your characters put to the test more than just mechanically.
Creation rules:-Stats: Roll 4d6, drop lowest.
-HP: roll or average.
-Starting lvl 2, your character had a sucessful smaller adventure or two, or is naturally talented, but their death has weakened them.
-Basic equipment, pure rp items not listed in the core book are also open for entry.
-Classes: I'm open to all corebook classes and all variants/otherwise officially published material. Alterations and homebrew after throughout review, creative approaches are quite welcomed, be they lewd or storywise.
Houserules/World information: A few things will be different, but I want to keep things as more or less a suprise. For creation purposes, assume you build for a classical fantasy world as per your character-backround. You an use the site's diceroller or another engine if you want, don't have to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18aqqH9tyk
One swift moment too much or too little, one crucial mistake.
Once, there was past, present and future, now only one remains, stretched mercilessly into eternity.
But this is no punishment, no cruelty is here but what you bring with you, well, almost none.
But worry not about such details, worry about your state of being. The present can't be kept silent forever.
Your soul can not stand still and watch eternally.
To stand still means to be dragged down, down into the world of true death.
Move. Push on! Succeed.
Don't get lost in fear or perversion and you might yet find a path back.. or a path somewhere else entirely.


Tales of heroes have an ugly side. No, not that some heroes can be spoiled or selfish or cowardly, although that is just part of mortal nature.
No, the sadder part is the story of those that never made it. Those that went off on their own, or had no one to ressurect them. Those that headed out to oppose tyranny and villainy.. only to fail.
No one tells the tale of these heroes.  Until now.
But what would there be to tell? 'And then she stepped on the poisoned spikes and none would oppose the dark overlord for many years to come?'
What if, for those souls that had a strong enough desire to survive, there was a special place.. where they could prove themselfs.. or, failing that, find themselfs serving the whims of the strange creators of this world?
That is the world you enter.

I'm looking for 4-6 players for this idea that's been ghosting around in my mind, kind of inspired by The Void, a bit by Ravenloft, season the mix with a bit of tentacle porn to taste.
Not quite sure if I'll group up or split up the PC's yet, also, general direction of the rp, aka if it will be more horror-themed or more adventure like I haven't decided yet, open for input.

Character sheetz(I prefer them filled out here, if you add backstory and fetish/dislikes to mythweaver, etc then that works to..) :

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[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Class:[/b]
[b]Race:[/b](+subrace)
[b]Backround:[/b](Just the mechanical one!)
[b]Alignment:[/b]
[b]Description:[/b](If different from picture)
[b]Fetishes:[/b] (Name a few things you want to happen to your character!)
[b]Dislikes:[/b] (Name something you really don't want to happen to your character!)
[b]Backstory:[/b](No need to write an essay but try to explain your characters strengths, weaknesses, why they headed out as an adventurer, what their main goal and worst fear is and why/how they failed.)


[b]Ability Scores[/b](+Modifiers)
Str
Dex
Con
Int
Wis
Cha

[b]HP:[/b]
[b]Hit Dice:[/b]
[b]Armor Class:[/b]
[b]Initiative Bonus:[/b]
[b]Speed:[/b]
[b]Saving Throws proficiencies:[/b]
[b]Skill and Tool proficiencies:[/b] Skill (+Total rank in it)
[b]Equipment and items:[/b]
[b]Feats:[/b](if any)
[b]Spellcasting[/b] (Delete if your character has none)
Cantrips:

Grade 1:

[spoiler=Random notez!]
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Feel free to ask any questions, note your interest, etc, here or in pm. This is -not- first come, first served, but rather if there's too many interests/later interests I'll select based on what I think works best for the idea of the campaign. And if there's not enough interests.. well, that solves the problem too. *chuckles*

p.s. I had this all written out yesterday but decided not to post anything on april fools for bad-omen reasons.

wander

I'm in.  XD

As always I struggle with backstory for a character. I think though once I figure out a strong concept, I can roll with it. If we're talking Berserk style dark fantasy though, I'm feeling a charismatic blade-user like Judeau or Serpico. :)

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: wander on April 02, 2018, 01:36:49 PM
I'm in.  XD

As always I struggle with backstory for a character. I think though once I figure out a strong concept, I can roll with it. If we're talking Berserk style dark fantasy though, I'm feeling a charismatic blade-user like Judeau or Serpico. :)

Berserk, with a touch of surreal vanitas and.. less lethal erotica? *chuckles* As for backstory, If available I recommend using a character from another game that either died or got abandoned early for one or the other reason for added effect?

wander

I have a stronger idea now. No real surviving D&D sheets for me to use based on that suggestion, though I'll have a character ready. Currently going to go on stand-by until more interest comes up here. :)

ThatFantasticBard

This certainly sounds like my kind of game, so I'll throw my interest in too.

Roleplay Frog

Come in come in, whats the worst that could happen. Mwhahaha!

schnookums

This does sound like something right up my alley. Although I don't think I could quite take advantage of the idea of using an abandoned/deceased character from another game unless I go way back...my most recent stuff is all races that don't exist in 5ed ;)

wander

I have a Dungeon World character I used to play on the regular, a quick conversion over and he should fine. He'd effectively be a Half-Elf/Elf Ranger. In DW parlance he started as an elf, though I always planned to get the advance to make him half-elf, which he'd discover IC in-game as some dark secret. Not sure how well that'd translate though.

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: schnookums on April 02, 2018, 07:25:04 PM
This does sound like something right up my alley. Although I don't think I could quite take advantage of the idea of using an abandoned/deceased character from another game unless I go way back...my most recent stuff is all races that don't exist in 5ed ;)

I can be parley'd with in that regard.

QuoteHe'd effectively be a Half-Elf/Elf Ranger. In DW parlance he started as an elf, though I always planned to get the advance to make him half-elf, which he'd discover IC in-game as some dark secret. Not sure how well that'd translate though.

Whats the dark secret, the human or the elfish part? *chuckles* Well, mechanics just use half-elf and perhaps pick a classical elven class, ranger, druid, somesuch. Alternatively, play with low wis to excuse him never noticining stuff like aging faster, etc. As long as he doesn't think he's a gellatinous cube trapped in a strangely solid form I can work with most things. :P

wander

Heh, he thought he was 100% elf, so the human side would be the secret.  ;D

Though that's pretty inspired, playing him as a low Wis Half-Elf who thinks he full Elf... I could do a lot with that!

Roleplay Frog

For now, no rush, still waiting on whoelse we can lure in.

schnookums

Well as far as recent characters that were part of abandoned games it's mainly fuzzy sorts of characters: a kitsune, a fixgirl, a ratgirl, and one human (well technically 2 but the human bard didn't quite die so much as end up as breeding stock.)

Roleplay Frog

you naming kitsune, then 'fixgirl' makes me wonder if you mean a genuine girl that tries to fix others with drugs *ponderfaces*

schnookums

*snerk* That's what I get for trying to respond from my phone. I'm differentiating kitsune from foxgirl in the one is more human and one is anthro sense.

wander


Roleplay Frog

Quote from: schnookums on April 03, 2018, 03:48:22 PM
*snerk* That's what I get for trying to respond from my phone. I'm differentiating kitsune from foxgirl in the one is more human and one is anthro sense.

I'd differentiate it as one is asian and one isn't *chuckles* .. seems like lighter fur is requested from your fellow interested player however.

towerhouse

This sounds pretty interesting.  Can the characters come back in a different body or in the same body?
-TH

On/Offs

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: towerhouse on April 03, 2018, 04:53:16 PM
This sounds pretty interesting.  Can the characters come back in a different body or in the same body?

Either or. Why?

towerhouse

I'm toying around with the idea of a holier than thou male paladin who wakes up in a slut's body.  Will that fit?
-TH

On/Offs

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: towerhouse on April 03, 2018, 05:27:26 PM
I'm toying around with the idea of a holier than thou male paladin who wakes up in a slut's body.  Will that fit?

It depends. I'm not opposed to the concept, can be interesting, but, I'd demand an interesting writeup as for why this jarring change happens. Was he doubling down on the holyness because of supressed desires and subconcious gender-identity uncertainties?

towerhouse

I think it's probably karma, where he was holier than thou and mocked the prostitutes (instead of loving them) for their slutiness.  In his mind, it should be easy for them to not be so slutty and live a normal life of monogamy.  And then, he's in for a big surprise...
-TH

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Roleplay Frog

Yeah that's what I feared. *chuckles*

Let me explain why I'm not fond of Karma, as fitting as it may sound at first. To preface, I've run some campaigns -focused- on TF content, gender change or human -> monstergirl, whatevs. All good fun. Stuff that could happen here too, to be clear. However.
This is not a good fun campaign. .. Bad fun? Is there such a thing..? There'll be fun, but not happy cheery funtimes.

My point is, such obvious Karma humanizes the alien forces that drive this setting behind the scenes and human judgement is not what you are dealing with here. This does not operate by a 'you do bad, bad things happen to you, now try and make up for it' kind of logic, the logic behind the setting is: 'You do good or bad, it didn't matter, you got unlucky and now you'll have to prove yourself.. or fail.' Good or evil had little to do with your fate or coming here, though they may influence if and how you make your way out.

Hence me asking you to introspect for your character rather than find outside reasons.

towerhouse

Actually, the karma part is not really divine intervention, but more of a plot theme moral of the story.  More comedy if anything.  It is just random that he got into a slut's body.  Not necessary random because I put him there, but in the scope of the game, it is random for the comedic effect of it.
-TH

On/Offs

Roleplay Frog

Ok. So, how do you think would this commedic effect fit into the more srs theme of the proposed campaign?

towerhouse

I made the presumption that comedy would be welcomed on the mention of tentacles....  Look, I'm use to laughing at tentacle sex in hentai as a big joke...  But...  Anyways, I'm gonna pull out.  Good luck.
-TH

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schnookums


schnookums

Seriously though, I'd be happy to play a Kitsune if allowed...but I can definitely play something that fits with the "official" 5th edition rules.

Roleplay Frog

Quotelook, I'm use to laughing at tentacle sex in hentai as a big joke.

Not ment as a hentai-comedy. I feel like the description made that clear. *chuckles*

QuoteSeriously though, I'd be happy to play a Kitsune if allowed...but I can definitely play something that fits with the "official" 5th edition rules.

Eh, I'll look at your 5.0 adaption *chuckles*



Roleplay Frog

The second one by goblin games looks fair and all, if you like being secretive. *chuckles* Let's avoid the shapeshifting.

Miroque

#30
5th ed Redemption story ? hmm.... I throw my hat in here.

Stat 1 =11
Stat 2 =13
Stat 3 =15
Stat 4 =13
Stat 5 =15
Stat 6 =12

Hitpoints roll = 6

Roleplay Frog

Throw me all your hats. No rush, ofc, but we seem to have enough interest to do things by now.

schnookums

Think I'm going to go Warlock for this, should have a sheet done by Thursday or Friday at the most (I'm kinda slow doing crunchy bits these days)

Miroque

#33
Name: Lihua Daiyu (Li)
Class: Monk
Race:Human
Backround:Criminal
Alignment:Lawful
Description: Li is 19 year old, oriental woman, with athletic build, long black hair and emerald green eyes. Her dedication is her most shown mental attribute, which she prides over all.
Fetishes: Beastiality, Slavery, Mental domination
Dislikes: Gore/Vore
Backstory:Li was an spy for local landlord, but was betrayed by lords son. She were ordered to root out the traitors in the lords court, but the son was behind all, and knew full well Li's orders. She were lured into the conspirationalists hideout. After the ambush, Li was captured alive, and sacrificed to their honorless god.

Character sheet

Ability Scores
Str 12 (+1)
Dex 16 (+3)
Con 14 (+2)
Int 13 (+1)
Wis 16 (+3)
Cha 14 (+2)

HP: 18
Hit Dice: 1d8
Armor Class: 16
Initiative Bonus: +3
Speed: 30
Profiency bonus:+2
Saving Throws proficiencies:Str, Dex
Skill proficiencies: Acrobatics, Deception, Athletics, Stealth
Tool profiencies: Poisons, Thief's tools, Dice games
Ki Pool:2
Ki powers:
Flurry of Blows (Bonus +2 unarmed attacks)
Patient Defence(Bonus dodge action)
Step of the Wind (Bonus: Disengage or Dash, double the jump distance)

Class abilities:
Unarmed attack (Bonus: Unarmed attack)
Unarmored Defence (DEX+WIS to AC)

Items and gear
Short sword, gaming dices, thief tools, Dark clothes, pouch of 15 gold, Crowbar
Other notes

Lihuan Daiyu meens Beutiful and elegant Black Jade

ThatFantasticBard

Thinkin about using an old gunslinger from a pathfinder game that never really went anywhere. The low level could be explained by a lack of guns to shoot things with, making them have to defend themself through other means. Probably gonna go Rogue if all that sounds fine?

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: schnookums on April 05, 2018, 12:38:53 AM
Think I'm going to go Warlock for this, should have a sheet done by Thursday or Friday at the most (I'm kinda slow doing crunchy bits these days)

Sounds good, no rush.

QuoteThinkin about using an old gunslinger from a pathfinder game that never really went anywhere. The low level could be explained by a lack of guns to shoot things with, making them have to defend themself through other means. Probably gonna go Rogue if all that sounds fine?

Works for me, go ahead.

QuoteLihua Daiyu (Li)- Character sheet

Alignment is Lawful neutral?
Character sheet looks fine, backstory is a bit very simplified, were you in a rush when writing it?

Sidenote: I'd have translated it as soft flower of great Jade, chinese sure is complicated.


wander

#36
Name: Yaksha.
Class: Sorcerer.
Race: Tiefling
Backround: Entertainer.
Alignment: Chaotic Good.
Description: Height: 5'6, Weight: 155lbs (70.3kg, or 11 stone).

Fetishes: Being seduced by hot feminine bratty, wooby or slutty pretty people, all the buttstuffz (mainly giving), filthier the better!
Dislikes: being mutilated (especially down below), play with sharp things, taking a load.

Backstory:
Yaksha was one tough kid growing up, he had to be being born a tiefling and being fairly short and light-bodied growing up. He took his licks, his tongue took on a sheen of silver to get out of the trouble he often managed to find himself in and in general he somehow managed to float through life without really learning any lessons from it. He was just too bright and energetic to let much get him down and if he couldn't fast-talk his way out of trouble, he had the toned body to be pretty tasty in a fight to boot.

Being a tiefling it really did seem like he was the product of some kind of Abyssal force's magic. Yaksha however was just too blinkered and lacking in common sense to really ponder any of this. Originally, when old enough to work, Yaksha was a travelling entertainer in a small troupe; acting, dancing and fire-eating were his specialties. The stage, it seemed in his little circus, was his life back then. He'd do whatever he could for fame and renown, often gossip-mongering to spread his name around as much as possible.

Yaksha has had a control over fire for his entire career, likely part of whatever planar force was watching over him. However, this magic was also wild and barely under his control... It was down to the risk of hurting his old troupe that the decision was made to seperate and for him to seek his fame and fortune without them by his side. He classes this behind closed doors as his biggest failure, causing harm to one of his troupe and becoming a liability for them and losing control of the wild magic within him and needing to be put down is his greatest fear.


Ability Scores(+Modifiers)
Str 14 (+2)
Dex 14 (+2)
Con 17 (+3)
Int 15 (+2)
Wis 9 (-1)
Cha 17 (+3)

HP:
16/16
9 + Roll Result: wander rolled: 1d6
Comment: hp
Result: 4
+3 = 9 +7 = 16 HP.

Hit Dice: d6 (+3 Con).
Armor Class: 12 (10 +2 dex, no armour).
Initiative Bonus: +2.
Speed: 30ft.
Proficiency Bonus: +2.
Saving Throws proficiencies: Con (+5), Cha (+5).
Skill and Tool proficiencies:
Skill proficiencies; Acrobatics (+4), Arcana (+4), Performance (+5), Persuasion (+5).
Tool proficiencies; Disguise Kit +2, Pan Flute +2.
Equipment and items:
o Light Crossbow w/20 bolts
o Two Daggers
o Arcane Focus.
o Dungeoneer Pack.
o Musical instrument (Pan Flute)
Favor from an Admirer: A scrap of cloth from an old banner
Roll Result: wander rolled: 2d10
Comment: trinket
Result: 4, 1

o Entertainer's Costume
o Purse containing 2 GPs, 1 SP, 2 CPs.
Other shit I spent my purses' original 15 GPs on;
x Bedroll (1)
x Caltrops (1)
x Crossbow bolt case (1)
x Lamp + pint of oil (0.6)
x Mess-kit (0.2)
x Mirror, steel (5)
x Signal Whistle (0.05)
x Sack (0.01)
x Shovel (2)
x Soap (0.02)
x Tent (2).

Feats: None.
Spellcasting : +5 (proficiency +2, charisma mod +3)
o 3 Spell Slots.

Cantrips:
o Dancing Lights
o Fire Bolt
o Mending
o Presdigitation
+ Thaumaturgy (Tiefling racial trait).

Grade 1:
o Charm Person
o Burning Hands
o Shield

Random notez!

Dark Vision. Resistance to Fire Damage.
Sorcerer Ability: Font of Magic (2/2 sorcery points).
Sorcerous Origins: Wild Magic.
o Wild Magic Surge: roll a d20 when casting Lv.1 spell or higher; on a 1 roll on the Wild Magic Surge table.
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Entertainer Feature: By Popular Demand (p.130 in corebook).
Languages: Common & Infernal.

Roleplay Frog

Nothing can go wrong with a high power low wis tiefling. :P

wander

Heh, I did sorta doubletake that those rolls were so good, outside the slightly below par Wis. ^^'

I want to sorta think more on a concept for him before I push things further. I'll do a bit of a reading and when I have a strong concept again, I'll know what to do for his skills, background (mechanical one), bio etc.

Roleplay Frog

All good, we have time, still waiting on an interest or two moar, no promises here.

wander

I'm feeling Wild Magic for my Sorcerer though. Likely due to some planar shenanigans. Getting an 'Entropy' sort of vibe. As in the cwod Mage version of it.

Miroque

Quote from: Deva on April 05, 2018, 07:08:42 AM
Alignment is Lawful neutral?
Character sheet looks fine, backstory is a bit very simplified, were you in a rush when writing it?
Sidenote: I'd have translated it as soft flower of great Jade, chinese sure is complicated.

Yes, Alignment is Lawful Neutral (Keeping her word and honor is paramount to her)
And about the backstory, I only did "simplified" version, as I do not think it matters that much, given the story prefix of everyone being in hell/abyss/whatever, and on survival mode to get the hell(whereever)out.
About the name: I toke it from the old chinesse name list. I have no idea what it really means, but there it was translated as is.

wander

Getting there with my devilboi.  ;D

More of an idea of who he is has been popping into my mind as I'm going along. Gonna be tough choosing Lv.1 sorcery skills for him still. I think though magically he needs some armour and he's already a fire demon type.

I also want to go more in-depth with the Entertainer background I gave him and see how that builds up his persona. :)

Roleplay Frog

Hrmnn.. again don't rush, because I'm kinda playing with the idea of redoing this as pathfinder, considering the seemingly increased interest in that engine, then again, things don't seem to quite get rolling here, perhaps the idea just doesn't jive with people as hoped for.

QuoteAnd about the backstory, I only did "simplified" version, as I do not think it matters that much, given the story prefix of everyone being in hell/abyss/whatever, and on survival mode to get the hell(whereever)out.

Well, Miroque, gonna be honest, kinda struggling with your english. Far be it from me to claim sanctity from misspellings or the odd grammatical construction, but I'm afraid there'll be comprehension issues down the line. For example, we are explicitely not in hell/abyss/whatever *chuckles* at least not by D&D definitions.

wander

Ah, that'd turn me off if this turned into a Pathfinder game. I've found 5e to be more of a joy in character creation by far.

Roleplay Frog


wander

I think it's me... If I wasn't interested you probably would get more people...  ::)

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: wander on April 05, 2018, 06:36:09 PM
I think it's me... If I wasn't interested you probably would get more people...  ::)
Well, that explains it. So how do you intend to make this up to me?

wander

Well, I would make a black humour joke involving seppuku or similar, instead tomorrow I'm gonna finish up my character sheet ready for the game and... ah, try and stay helpful, I guess...  ::)

Roleplay Frog

Welp, let's see if some moar interest rolls in over the weekend. *Nodnod*

schnookums

Kinda holding off on finishing a character in case you do decide to swap systems (or if this falls through, with I hope it doesn't!)

Roleplay Frog

I concur, that said, I see only three dedicated interests, perhaps another project would be more fruitful. what primarly attracts people to this idea? Perhaps I can find something that works, yet has a broader appeal.

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: Deva on April 08, 2018, 12:54:44 PM
I concur, that said, I see only three dedicated interests, perhaps another project would be more fruitful. what primarly attracts people to this idea? Perhaps I can find something that works, yet has a broader appeal.

I think the main thing for me was the dark/erotic part. I enjoy mixing horror themes with smut and have yet to find a campaign that lasted long enough to have fun with it.

Roleplay Frog

Yeah, I know that feeling, so many folks have awesome ideas, you make a character and then stuff kinda.. drops off. I can promise that wont happen to me, barring serious rl mayhem.

Perhaps the whole afterlife-aspect of this thing drove some people off. I can easily drop that and transform it into a pure ravenloft inspired campaign. Been pondering on that as well after listening to hellfire covers on loop.

Don't judge.

Chulanowa

#54
-Raises hand- i'm interested! and while i do like the variety of races and classes offered by pathfinder, i find 5E a vastly superior core (all of Pathfinder's granularity gets stuck in my teeth at times.)

Er, though... what sort of tentacle porn are we talking? it's not my favorite, are we talking like "Eldritch horrors made of slime-dicks" or more "attractive goo-girls who like to have fu-un"? 'Cause I may haveto reconsider if it's in the "pit of earthworms" end of the scale.

Roleplay Frog

Well, I think that's enough folks *nodnods*

And it seems people here prefer 5th edition, so.. no problem staying with that, give me less trouble anyway.

5th edition it is

If there's no more questions to ask and answer, go wild hammering out your charsheets, (or throw me a link if you already did/updated them)

no hurrying about it, I'll give it a few more days before starting, certainly. *nods* Letz do dis!

Chulanowa

Any answer to my question above Deva? ya might have missed it since it's an edit  ;D

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: Chulanowa on April 08, 2018, 02:42:55 PM
Any answer to my question above Deva? ya might have missed it since it's an edit  ;D

*chuckles* err.. middleground? I dun plan on cute mongirls lathering you lovingly, nor will I go full cthulhu on this. I'm open to compromising somewhat.

ThatFantasticBard

By the way, what sorta pairings do you tend to go for, Deva? I usually have a preference towards m/m content, but if that ain't your bag, I'll probably end up making a female character over, like, a trap or something.

Roleplay Frog

Traps can be cute, if done right.
I'm generally open to whatevers, dun let my hesitation about disallowing 'make me a girl as punishment' for storyline reasons mislead you, trap, futa, whatever works. In a way this setting -wants- to explore darker desires so such a character can be ripe with potential, depending on how they view their sexuality.

wander

Still here, been busy here, there and everywhere! Will be continuing with my character. Really I think all I need to do is choose their spells and write their blurb and they'll be ready to roll. :)

I'm glad sticking to 5e is happening. I also am attracted to the part-sorta Berserk and part-Wraith the Oblivion vibe the concept gave me. Or Dark Souls schtick. All three of those I was thinking aboot.

Roleplay Frog

You're not far off, wander, 'specially the half-surreal scenes of berserk I dunno the wraith thing but sounds good too...

The very core of this idea was The Void, a rather surreal game that, considering it's dirt-cheap, is worth a peek at, imo, just for its uniqueness. It was a bit.. overly artsy, but few games had such a psychological impact on me.. I know thats neither here nor there for someone not knowing it, but basically I enjoy having an oppressive, darker world because moments of sucess and happiness feel far more real when you truly fought for them and know they can be fleeting.
I think a bit of .. oomph is taken out of a lot of erotic campaigns when you know all the gnolls are after is your booty. In my campaign, well, for one, it wont be normal gnolls and for two, .. but not spoilering too much here. :P

Basically, I'm pretty set on wanting to DM this, and if we end up being just three, whatever, as long as I got three folks that are really into it, works for me.


Miroque

I think there was more that 3 intrested people. Hope there will be some time table of things to come.

Roleplay Frog

Time table as in? I don't really like setting deadlines, people will be done when they're done, though if someone takes weeks to submit anything I'll just understand that as a lack of continued interest.

Anyway, still kinda waiting on a bit of updating from you for the backstory, miroque. I can't approve your character based on four barely understandable sentences.

Miroque

Thats why I want to wait the other backgrounds, so I can see, what is considered enough for you sir.

ThatFantasticBard

#65
So midway through making my backstory, I realized that when I said my character was a Gunslinger, I didn't actually mention that it was a more 'Wild West' type of campaign. I'm not sure how much it matters, seeing as anything involving guns is gonna be removed from him thanks to being dead and he'll, for all intents and purposes, be your usual fantasy adventurer at the start, but I figured I should make sure that it was okay before I finished up the backstory.

Also, holy heck, I'm even more excited for this game hearing you were inspired by The Void. I adored that game and it had a pretty big impact on me too.

wander

Spells all sorted, went for what the character would have, based on the Background choices I rolled up and how the character was going.

Literally the only thing I need to fill in now is the backstory part. My tiefling sorcerer has a name, build and all the needed bits. I'm hoping my character sheet for him will be done by tonight.

Diabolus Lupus

Just saw this and would like to slot  in my interest of there are still slots available.

What classes are already rolled? I'm not a fan of doubling up in smaller groups.  I can have a character built and posted tomorrow.

Roleplay Frog

QuoteThats why I want to wait the other backgrounds, so I can see, what is considered enough for you sir.

Ok sure.

Quote from: ThatFantasticBard on April 08, 2018, 09:54:28 PM
So midway through making my backstory, I realized that when I said my character was a Gunslinger, I didn't actually mention that it was a more 'Wild West' type of campaign. I'm not sure how much it matters, seeing as anything involving guns is gonna be removed from him thanks to being dead and he'll, for all intents and purposes, be your usual fantasy adventurer at the start, but I figured I should make sure that it was okay before I finished up the backstory.

Also, holy heck, I'm even more excited for this game hearing you were inspired by The Void. I adored that game and it had a pretty big impact on me too.

Full on wild-west lore is kind of too advanced for the setup I envision. Not saying outright no, but definitly not high in favor either.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned it was inspired by The Void plus adult campaign plus Ravenloft-ideas in the opening post, but that might have gotten burried. Also the music I used was from another icepick lodge game. :P
I thought that the game had great potential, shockingly more so by how under the radar it is for most people, the only thing I disliked was that it got a bit very artsy with the ending and that, past a certain point, most challenge was kind of gone..
Oh and that some things you could pretty much not deal with without a google and some rng.
Errr. it ofc wont be a copy of the void, but imagine that games ideas clashing with classic adventuring worlds..

QuoteSpells all sorted, went for what the character would have, based on the Background choices I rolled up and how the character was going.

Poke when (almost) done.

QuoteJust saw this and would like to slot  in my interest of there are still slots available.

What classes are already rolled? I'm not a fan of doubling up in smaller groups.  I can have a character built and posted tomorrow.

Currentlly we certainly have space, but no character is fully finished yet so .. pretty open on what you want to choose, I do believe we are light on frontline martial things as well as healers as of now, that said, I can deal with a group of 4 warlocks and a druid, no problem here. ^^

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: Deva on April 09, 2018, 06:58:33 AM
Ok sure.

Full on wild-west lore is kind of too advanced for the setup I envision. Not saying outright no, but definitly not high in favor either.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned it was inspired by The Void plus adult campaign plus Ravenloft-ideas in the opening post, but that might have gotten burried. Also the music I used was from another icepick lodge game. :P

Alright, that should be fine, I just wasnt sure how much our backgrounds mattered for that given how we start. I can probably just make a couple of tweaks to it to make guns rarer and less advanced so that it'll make a bit more sense.

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: ThatFantasticBard on April 09, 2018, 07:28:22 AM
Alright, that should be fine, I just wasnt sure how much our backgrounds mattered for that given how we start. I can probably just make a couple of tweaks to it to make guns rarer and less advanced so that it'll make a bit more sense.

That'd be better. And tricky to answer. In a way, I'd like to get inspired by your backstories to a degree, buuut.. not telling moar! :P

Diabolus Lupus

Noted. I will roll up a front liner. I'll have it this evening.

Roleplay Frog

Hmnhmn, at the pace people are hammering on them charsheets, perhaps I'll get the campaign kicking for the weekend.

wander

My character sheet is all done and unspoilered from it's WIP status, page 2 if you want to look 'em over. I was broad with backstory.

Roleplay Frog

Hmnhmn. looks good on first overview, almost suprisingly tame fetishes, is that by design? *chuckles* If you are into giving in a party of takers you might find things turned about on yourself frequently, fair warning.

wander

I can get more detailed and specific in the fetishes if you want... I enjoy some wild extreme filth.  ;D

Roleplay Frog

*Chuckles* Well, I will decide a rough .. theme for the lewds after seeing every character, but no need to be shy, I'd be impressed if you managed to shock me.

wander


Roleplay Frog


wander

Yeah, I like the Joji music, though really sad about Papa Franku. Sadly it became a literal pain for him to make those videos.

Roleplay Frog

Was hoping for at least a how to basic facereveal cameo but that not coming is a pretty clear nail in the coffin.

wander

I like Red Letter Media and Videogame Dunkey for my comedies mainly now. I've even started watching Pewds for his meme reviews, post-breakdown he's become somewhat self-aware of who he is and how he's seen. Makes watching him pretty entertaining now.


Roleplay Frog

Video game comedy aside, *chuckles*

I welcome anyone, if you can keep a decent rp-posting pace.

Diabolus Lupus

I thought that 1st level was full hit die, not roll. Unless that's a house rule you run with.


Roleplay Frog

Quote from: Diabolus Lupus on April 09, 2018, 07:12:44 PM
I thought that 1st level was full hit die, not roll. Unless that's a house rule you run with.

First level is maxed hp, yes.

Diabolus Lupus

Quote from: Deva on April 09, 2018, 07:58:42 PM
First level is maxed hp, yes.
Okay, just checking cause the roll up instructions weren't exactly clear on that and some people do weird stuff like that. I'll have at least part of my character up here shortly before I have to leave for work.

Roleplay Frog

Heh, I guess 'first roll maxed' is just something I innately assume, but all good.

No rushie rushie, I'll be doing rl stuff like sleeping and working myself. :P


ThatFantasticBard

Name: Ellie Tallow
Class: Rogue
Race: Human
Background:Criminal
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Fetishes: Teratophilia, Corruption, Humiliation, pretty much anything I don't list on dislikes
Dislikes: Bathroom Play, Vore, Ridiculous amounts of gore
Backstory: Ellie was born to a lawless land, rife with all sorts of dangers and unsavory characters. His childhood was a strange experience, to say the least, his mother having abandoned him at a dilapidated brothel, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but a rusty old pistol. Even though the Madam and girls that worked there more or less accepted him with open arms, he was expected to earn his keep, making sure that the establishment was clean and in somewhat good repair. While it probably wasn't the best to raise a child, Ellie was content with his lot in life, with some of the whores even treating him like a daughter, often dressing him up in hand-me-down clothes and putting make-up on him. This often resulted in them getting scolded by the madam for wasting good supplies on the boy, but he would still sneak off from time to time to dress himself up.

When Ellie got older, he started to tinker with the pistol he was left with, attempting to get the battered thing in working condition. After a bit of trail and error, the boy managed to figure out how to repair it well enough to use and would practice with it whenever he got the chance, using what little allowance he made to buy ammo from a gunsmith whenever he was sent to the 'nearby' town to get supplies. Though given how rare guns were, the boy could only afford very little ammo, the price of the bullets being incredibly high. While he enjoyed life at the brothel well enough, eventually the boy became restless and once he came of age, decided to strike off on his own. Taking only a few necessary supplies, his gun and one of the workers' favorite dresses that she had given to him as a gift, Ellie headed off after a few teary goodbyes.

Arriving at the nearest town, a place he was fairly familiar with thanks to the many trips he took over the years, the boy first tried to make an honest living. Having already had some knowledge of how to work a gun, Ellie managed to convince the local gunsmith, an old man with a sour attitude, to hire him on as an apprentice. While he had a knack for the trade and quickly learned all that the gunsmith could teach him, the pay had been lousy and Ellie could barely afford necessities. When he brought his financial woes up with the old man and asked for a raise, he simply laughed and told the boy that he was lucky that he had hired him at all. This was the final straw for Ellie, having grown up with the idea that hard work should at least be properly rewarded. So the youth decided that if he couldn't make a decent amount of gold through legitimate means, he was better off taking what he wanted instead.

Unfortunately, Ellie was a rather familiar face by this point and he definitely didn't have the money to go elsewhere. He was in need of some sort of disguise and decided the dress he was gifted would do perfectly. Disguising himself as a woman and using the cowl to better hide his face, Ellie began to sneak out of town whenever he heard news of traders that would be passing through. The dress turned out to work even better than he had expected, no one recognizing the boy as he left town and the carriages that he would raid letting down their guard around the young 'girl'. While he tried his best to avoid bloodshed, he wasn't against it, gunning down anyone who started to act too violent or seemed too twitchy. One day, after raiding a particularly wealthy merchant, Ellie ran into a small group of bandits, who gave the boy the option to either join them or die. While he wasn't the biggest fan of being told what to do, he decided it would be better to swallow his pride than to end up dead in a ditch.

While life with the bandits was a bit rough, he soon discovered the value of strength in numbers, the group going after bigger targets than he could ever hope to take on alone. They even started a bit of a routine, where Ellie would play a damsel in distress, allowing the others to catch their targets with their pants down, quite literally at times. However, like any group of criminals worth their salt, the gang started to amass a bounty on their heads and where there's a bounty, there's sure to be bounty hunters. While at first it was just a few small timers that posed no real threat, just trying to get their start with an easy target, the longer the group went uncaught, the higher the bounty got. Despite the fact that it became harder and harder for the group just to survive, Ellie knew they would be okay so long as they kept together.

Sadly it was greed and that ended up leading to the downfall of the group. While most of them were asleep, the man they had put on guard duty had bound them all up and hauled them off to the nearest town, hoping to collect on the bounty and try and clear his name. Of course once they arrived he was immediately tied up as well, the town figuring it was better they all hang than to pay a dangerous criminal. Ellie's last hours were spent reminding his once friend of how much of an idiot he was for thinking his plan would work and the boy's short career as a bandit would end with him hanging from the gallows.



Ability Scores(+Modifiers)
Str    9 (-1)
Dex 19 (+4)
Con  9 (-1)
Int  13 (+1)
Wis 13 (+1)
Cha 14 (+2)

HP: 11
Hit Dice: 2d8
Armor Class: 15
Initiative Bonus: +4
Speed: 30 ft
Saving Throws proficiencies: Dexterity(6), Intelligence(3)
Skill and Tool proficiencies:
Acrobatics (6)
Deception (6)
Perception (3)
Persuasion (4)
Sleight of Hand (6)
Stealth (8)
Thieves' Tools (2)

Equipment and items:
Rapier
Thieves' Tools
Shortbow
Quiver (20 arrows)
Explorer's Pack
Leather Armor
Daggers (x2)
Crowbar
Dark Clothes
15 GP
Dice Set
Feats: N/A

Random notez!

Character Sheet for thoroughness.

Die Rolls

Diabolus Lupus

#90
Here's the initial. I'll get the rest tomorrow evening when I wake up.

Name: Perra Baharoosh
Class: Barbarian (Totem Warrior)
Race: Dragonborn
Backround: Folk Hero
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Description: Perra wears the pelt of a bear she slew when she was younger as a cape. As a sign of her prowess, she has tattooed the likeness of bear paws on the backs of her hands.
Fetishes: Bestiality, Tentacles,
Dislikes: The usual squick stuff
Backstory: She was adopted by a barbarian tribe that lived near where her parents lived after they were killed by a band of marauding goblins. She grew up with them and even stood up to the roving band of goblins when they returned, slaying their leader with her own hands.


Ability Scores(+Modifiers)
Str 15 (+2)
Dex 11 (+0)
Con 14(+2)
Int 11 (+0)
Wis 12 (+1)
Cha 12 (+1)

HP: 28
Hit Dice: 2d12
Armor Class: 12
Initiative Bonus: +1
Speed: 30 ft
Saving Throws proficiencies: Strength, Constitution
Skill and Tool proficiencies: Skill (+Total rank in it)
Animal Handling- +3
Athletics- +4
Perception +3
Survival- +3

Land Vehicles
Woodcarver's tools

Equipment and items:

Woodcarver's tools
Shovel
Iron pot
Common clothes
Belt pouch with 10gp
Greataxe (1d12 Slashing)
4 Javelins (1d6 Piercing)
Maul (2d6 Bludgeoning)
Explorer's pack

Racial abilities

Draconic Ancestry- Gold
Breath Weapon- 15 ft cone of fire, DC 12 Dex, 2d6 dmg (1/short or long rest)
Damage Resistance- Fire

Class Features

Rage- 2/ long rest, +2 melee damage
Unarmored Defense- while not wearing armor, AC= 10+ Dex+ Con; can still use shield
Reckless Attack- choose to attack recklessly giving Adv on Str based melee attacks; attack rolls against me have Adv
Danger Sense- You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can't be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

Rolls

At 2018-04-09 19:48:07, Devilstrike (uid: 5057) rolls: 4d6k3 Result: 14
At 2018-04-09 19:49:31, Devilstrike (uid: 5057) rolls: 4d6k3 Result: 11
At 2018-04-09 19:49:47, Devilstrike (uid: 5057) rolls: 4d6k3 Result: 11
At 2018-04-09 19:50:03, Devilstrike (uid: 5057) rolls: 4d6k3 Result: 13
At 2018-04-09 19:50:36, Devilstrike (uid: 5057) rolls: 4d6k3 Result: 11
At 2018-04-09 19:50:56, Devilstrike (uid: 5057) rolls: 4d6k3 Result: 12
At 2018-04-09 20:06:23, Devilstrike (uid: 5057) rolls: 1d12 Result: 12

ThatFantasticBard

Alright, sheet is done! I tried to tone down the western stuff in the backstory so it could make as much sense in a fantasy setting, while still having a gun involved. I also tried to condense it a bit cause I feel like it was going on a bit too long? As for character stats and stuff, lemme know if I screwed up on that too, cause I'm not super familiar with 5e

Diabolus Lupus

Quote from: ThatFantasticBard on April 09, 2018, 08:42:47 PM
Alright, sheet is done! I tried to tone down the western stuff in the backstory so it could make as much sense in a fantasy setting, while still having a gun involved. I also tried to condense it a bit cause I feel like it was going on a bit too long? As for character stats and stuff, lemme know if I screwed up on that too, cause I'm not super familiar with 5e

At a quick glance, looks right to me.

wander

I need to put the ranks in of my boy's proficiencies. I'll do a quick edit and sort that out presently.

Kathyan

#94
Name: Ssezseehsa Zsistu "Zashesa"
Class: Warlock (Hexblade)
Race: Yuan-ti
Background: Urban Bounty Hunter
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Fetishes: Snakes, Tentacles, Depravation, Mind Control, Exhibitionism, Bondage, Non-con, pretty much everything not on Dislikes.
Dislikes: Bath stuff, Blood play, Pregnancy, Incest, Bestiality (with nonsentient animals, excepting snakes).
Backstory: Nothing but a lowly snake in the yuan-ti caste system born under the name of Zsistu, Ssezseehsa (as she usually refers to herself) was sent to the most common of the mission one of her lineage would expect that of infiltrating into a small human settlement and spying the primitive ones that lived there. None would expect that she would be contacted by some entity of another plane while doing so not even her but it still happened and in the process she received amazing magical and martial prowess and a increasing desire for power beyond everything that had been promised to her by her caste. It wouldn't take long before she disappeared from her assigned spot and went after a bigger city under disguise, practicing the profession of bounty hunter for a living and also to gain for herself power and fortune.

Everything would have gone right for Zashesa, as she made herself call among the humans, as the primitive ones never suspected anything about her but there was something she didn't considered though and that she didn't realized as well until it was too late. The more time she spent with these lowly life forms the more interested she grew in their culture and the more emotions she began to develop and that was something that deeply ashamed her, how could a superior being could develop the flaws of these primitive ones?

Trying to do something about this Ssezseehsa decided to travel somewhere else but as she did she met someone on her the road, another lowly human life form yes yet there was something different about this one and no matter how unsuitable it was for her to get closer to this human she did and they began to travel together. It was at that night that they were ambushed at night by hooded figures, perhaps it was because they saw just a couple of travelers or perhaps all this time that she had been working as a bounty hunter had earned her some enemies, maybe it was her own own people making justice in the name of their caste as she abandoned her duty but she never knew, that night was the last one of Ssezseehsa.

Ability Scores
Str 10 (+0)
Dex 13 (+1)
Con 12 (+1)
Int 14 (+2)
Wis 12 (+1)
Cha 17 (+3)

HP: 15
Hit Dice: 2d8
Armor Class: 15
Initiative Bonus: +1
Speed: 30'
Saving Throws proficiencies: Wisdom, Charisma
Skill and Tool proficiencies: Bluff+5, Insight+3, Investigation+4, Deception +5, Flute+4, Thieves' Tools+4
Equipment and items: Snake whip, snake-hide armor, shield, components pouch, scholar's pack, two daggers, light crossbow (20bolts), commons clothes, empty pouch, snake-resembling flute, Small Snake pet
Feats: none
Spellcasting 2 spell slots
Cantrips: Poison Spray, Friends, Mage Snake (reskined mage hand)
Grade 1: Hex, Shield
At will: Animal Friendship (snakes only), Disguise Self, Silent Image

Racial Features

Mostly humanlike the only snake-like feature Ssezseehsa has is a forked tongue
Darkvision 60'
Innate Spellcasting: poison spray, speak with animals at will (snakes only), at lvl3 suggestion once per long rest
Magic Resistance: advantage on saves vs spells and magical effects
Poison Immunity
Languages: Common, Abyssal, Draconic

Class Features

Hexblade curse: once per short rest, bonus action to activate, lasts 1 minute: against the cursed you gain proficiency to damage rolls against cursed creature, score a critical with 19-20 and if it dies you recover HP equal to your warlock level+your charisma bonus
Hex Warrior: proficiency with medium armor, shields and martial weapons, after a long rest touch a weapon, when you use it use charisma for attack and damage
Invocations:
Mask of Many faces: Disguise Self at will
Misty Visions: Silent Image at will

Random notez!

Since I get proficiency with armor and shield based on patron but don't get better equipment I spent her starting coins on that leaving her money less
Also made her snake themed, so her hide armor is snake hide, her whip is also made from that and the flute she plays is shaped like a snake as well, also took the freedom to reskin mage hand as a snake rather than as a snake and to give her a small snake pet. ^^

Chulanowa

I'm thinking this isn't actually the game for me. Thanks for the consideration though Deva, you guys have fun!

schnookums

#96
Well, here we go, background will be coming tomorrow, but here's the crunchy bits at least

Name: Kitsuko
Class:Warlock
Race: Kitsune (Nogitsune)
Backround: Urchin
Alignment:Neutral
Description:(If different from picture)
Fetishes:Bestiality, pregnancy, non-con fun
Dislikes: Toilet play, mutilation
Backstory:Coming Soon!


Ability Scores(+Modifiers)
Str:  06         -2
Dex: 16 (18) +4 
Con: 12        +1
Int:  14        +2
Wis: 11        +0
Cha: 17 (18) +4

HP:15
Hit Dice:2d8
Armor Class:
Initiative Bonus:+4
Speed:30
Saving Throws proficiencies:Wisdom, Charisma
Skill and Tool proficiencies:Slight of Hand (+6), Stealth (+6), Deception (+6), Investigation (+4), Thieve’s tools (+6), Disguise Kit (+6)
Equipment and items:
Feats: None
Spellcasting

Archfey Pact
Invocations: Agonizing Blast, Mask of Many Faces
Cantrips: Eldritch Blast, Friends

Level 1: Sleep, Charm Person, Protection from Evil/Good

Racial Abilities

Darkvision Kitsune live in the darkness, and they use it to their every advantage. You can see within dim light as if it were bright for 60 feet. Also, you see in darkness as if it were dim light.

Language You speak, write, and understand Common, and Kitsune-speak, a language jealously guarded as the shared secret language of the kitsune.

Keeper of Secrets
You gain advantage against any spell or effect that would force you to reveal information (such as zone of truth). When you are under the influence of a spell that charms or controls you, you may make a new saving throw to end the effect if the spell’s controller attempts to extract information from you.

Claws You have sharp claws that can be used as weapons on combat. Your claw attacks deal 1d4 slashing damage. You may make an additional claw attack as a bonus action with your off hand, even if you are wielding a weapon in your other hand. Neither claw attack adds your strength or dexterity bonus to damage. You are considered proficient with your claws.

Shadowcraft You may cast silent image once, though any image you create must appear darkened or as a shadow. You can use this to change the level of light in a 5 foot square, either from bright light to dim light, or from dim light to darkness (see Vision and Light in the SRD). You regain the ability to do so after a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Affinity for the Black You may attempt to hide using a Dexterity (stealth) check even if you have been seen, as long as you are in dim light or darkness. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Shadowhex You may impose bad luck on others when you hide in shadows. While in the shadows and unnoticed, you may use a reaction to grant disadvantage on any roll performed by a target within 30 ft. This feature may be used after the initial roll is made. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Random notez!


William Blake

Hmmm... I'm rambling through a to-do list so I haven't stared too hard at what everyone is playing, but my ears perked up when you mentioned "5e characters that were dropped". I have a dark fantasy half-elf from a campaign I was really excited about and which completely fell apart before the prologue even got too far off the ground. If there's space for her, I might enjoy dusting off an adjusting the ol' character sheet.

She was a half-elf Bard using/planning to use on of the Unearthed Arcana Bard schools... can't remember what it was called off the cuff, but it focused more on blades and martial abilities. She was written for a Dragon Age-like world where people were racist against elves and wary of magic. In her original background, she ran away from her elven home in the forest, naive and curious about her human parentage and obsessed with stories of heroes and valor, winding up essentially an exotic sex worker until she killed a knight who tried to abuse her, stole his rapier, and was exiled from the city, hopping on with the caravan that was supposed to start the story.

Magic-wise, she was more fond of spells that were easy to hide or play off as something else. As a spiteful, vindictive, bitter person with a lot of righteous fury, she also liked spells she could play off as her targets/victims going crazy. I think her spell list at level 1 was Prestidigitation, Vicious Mockery, Bane, Cure Wounds, Dissonant Whispers, and Healing Word.

She'd be fun to fuck up even worse in the confines of E. Maybe instead of escaping the knight she was used for snuff. Who knows? Could be entertaining, if you want to get dark. ;)

Diabolus Lupus

William, look up Xanthars guide to everything. That had your bardic school of blades plus a couple other nifty ones that I can't recall since I was also looking at that school for the bard I'm playing in my rl group.

William Blake

It was actually the College of Valor, since I got off my lazy ass and looked it up. ;) Merielle was obsessed with stories, and her bardic nature was more the retelling of epic poems and tales of valor... and of trying to star in them herself. College of Whispers is also tempting, though. :D

wander

Awesome characters, gang! I'm glad this is getting some traction now.  :-)

William Blake

Dug through all the Unearthed Arcana, just for fun. I'm definitely thinking it was College of Valor, just with an extra emphasis on stabbing things herself. ;D Can't remember if I wanted her to take a few levels of Warlock - I do love that class - but there seem to be enough here that I can just stick with Bard, if y'all want me around. ;)

Roleplay Frog

I'll need a little to read up through/answer all the things, among which is a lady with a snake-thong, admittedly did not expect that, so here's a random picture I may or may not use in the game to distract ya'll.
Currently oggling saturday very late to sunday(depends on how quick I finish my game-release this week) for getting the campaign going, prolly going to hammer up an OOC and stuff(including a charsheet thread for approved folks) earlier.


wander

Btw, snake elf is Echidna from Queen's Blade if you want sauce on your Papa John's Snekh pizza.

Most people know Queen's Blade for the animu, I knew it for the Lost World's books mainly.
You and an opposing player each swap your books and do PvP sorta Choose your own Adventure, as each page has different sword-fight actions you take and the page to turn to for it. You can see an image on each page seeing either the opposing player's character get hit by your attack or a pic of them posing provocatively as they attack you. It's pretty awesome if you dug Choose your own Adventure books as a kid.

Feel free to PM me for more info on them. :)

Pscetch

Hi, I am a first timer so this would literally be my first DnD ever. I want to play a rogue dwarf who will become a secondary warlock. I have the character sheet but I do not know how to attach the file. Its on myth weavers. Please let me know asap as I would love to get the ball rolling.
Come with me we'll go and see a place called candy island. Who needs candy island its safer at the docks. But there aint no streams of sodie pop dripping down the rocks. Its dangerous and risky! But adventurous and free! Adventure that's the life for me. With a lollipop tree and a lemonade sea!
~Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack  ;p

wander

I think maybe copying the URL address of the page the sheet is on and pasting that in a Reply should autocode it as a link to check out. :)

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: wander on April 10, 2018, 01:41:48 PM
I think maybe copying the URL address of the page the sheet is on and pasting that in a Reply should autocode it as a link to check out. :)

Ye. Also *Flails at sudden influx of interest* I'm working through stuff, giving everything it's due, if this keeps up I might set up an OOC and charsheet thingie soon, will let you know.

Until then, feel free to pelter me with questions or lewd suggestions, I dun mind. :P

William Blake

Does that mean I can fuck about with a character sheet when I get home in an hour?

I think it does. ;D I think we're going to have fun with this...

wander

Making it formal, I'm not going to be writing thousands of words in a post and I'm dropping out here. I'm pretty disappointed as I was looking forward to this, though I'm not looking forward to needing to read walls of text whilst I just do a few generic paragraphs.

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: wander on April 10, 2018, 02:52:47 PM
Making it formal, I'm not going to be writing thousands of words in a post and I'm dropping out here. I'm pretty disappointed as I was looking forward to this, though I'm not looking forward to needing to read walls of text whilst I just do a few generic paragraphs.
Woah, wait what? Did I miss something? That seemed to come outta nowhere :^(

William Blake

Quote from: ThatFantasticBard on April 10, 2018, 02:56:37 PM
Woah, wait what? Did I miss something? That seemed to come outta nowhere :^(

Shoutbox conversation, I think. Sad, too, since I was rather looking forward to that Tiefling! I mean, I suppose I understand not wanting to wade through a lot of text, if that's not someone's thing, but I hope no one gave him the impression that he'd have to write one...                                                                                                                                     

Roleplay Frog

Oook let's take a gander at what characters float about newly first!

QuoteAlright, sheet is done! I tried to tone down the western stuff in the backstory so it could make as much sense in a fantasy setting, while still having a gun involved. I also tried to condense it a bit cause I feel like it was going on a bit too long? As for character stats and stuff, lemme know if I screwed up on that too, cause I'm not super familiar with 5e

Bit long, yes, but I knew in the middle that, lacking weird curveballs I'd approve it, I can quite literally see him wake up in my world with a torn in half noose around his neck ala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsObv4b-qYg
Mechanicswise you're in the clear, he's not super strong buildwise, but I'll give you something to compensate, see below.

Ellie Tallow

an interesting set of rolls you got yourself, also gz for making me look up teratophilia which I at first translated as 'liking four things at once' You'll do fine. :P
I'll let you keep your gun redesigning the shortbow, because I like the writeup and it's clearly a dear item for him. (plus, by design, it is antithetical to a rogues sneaking strategies, so I can make it strong without overpowering you).
Treat as shortbow +3 with a drawback of needing a full round reload if fired consecutively six times, also, not a silent weapon at all roleplay/stealthwise. Don't expect to easily find ammunition.
Mechanics wise, all looks in order, thus, you are the first to whom I can say:
Character Approved!

-> This fills a role of single target damage dealer/Literal glass cannon for those that want to do party-building.

Perra Baharoosh

Fetish just bestiality? Well, I can certainly comply ^^, though I must ask what you think about corruptive/transforming concepts?
Mechanicswise, solid meatshield chassis, poke when updated.

Ssezseehsa Zsistu "Zashesa"


Snek girl:
I find the 'all but snek' bestiality exlcusion interesting, is that IC or OOC as well, just to be clear? Asking cause, looking at characters about, bestiality might well become a big thing. ^^
Hawtest Yuan-Ti I've seen in a while, but you portray their racial attitude apropriately, so not like I mind that.
I have two things I need to poke at with your backround, one is who or what assaulted her and the other is her patron. I -think- you want to leave that open for me to decide, I'd like to take that opportunity for her patron gladly, but also work with you there, Hexblades by design make pacts with sentient weapons, is that what you have in mind?
As for who killed her, I'd say missing a report and getting all too snuggly with humans is reason enough for the Yuan-Ti to take her out, just want this to be cleared as we start.
Mechanics: I'm ok with the snake-reflavouring of things overall, obviously non abusable. Do tell me about the snake-whip, does that play into your hexblade?
Overall, looking pretty good, just needs some clarifying.

Kitsuko

I wonder if there's a fable of fox and snake.. hrmn.. anyway!
Looks alright so far, poke when done.


Now, other stuff that was said, and commentary:
So far, looking at a kinda squishy party.. but that's ok, don't worry about that, you're after all, already dead, so getting to 0 hitpoints wont knock you out.

QuoteI'm thinking this isn't actually the game for me. Thanks for the consideration though Deva, you guys have fun!
Alright, sure, see yous about!

QuoteI have a dark fantasy half-elf from a campaign I was really excited about and which completely fell apart before the prologue even got too far off the ground. If there's space for her, I might enjoy dusting off an adjusting the ol' character sheet.

One of the ideas of the setting, yes. I feel that by using 'Dead' characters in this setting, it adds a level of .. uh.. *insert your favourite artsy word here* to the roleplay.. and most people that played online for a while have one or two of those characters they really liked that just kinda.. fell off.

Quoteshe was written for a Dragon Age-like world where people were racist against elves and wary of magic.
I'm ok with that.

QuoteAs a spiteful, vindictive, bitter person with a lot of righteous fury, she also liked spells she could play off as her targets/victims going crazy.

Our party seems to start leaning towards evil. I can work with that *evil DM snickering noises to be heard*

QuoteShe'd be fun to fuck up even worse in the confines of E. Maybe instead of escaping the knight she was used for snuff. Who knows? Could be entertaining, if you want to get dark. ;)

I'm fading genuine snuff stuff to black. Perversion and corruption otoh.. You however are invited to get a bit dark in your backstory introduction of how she came to this setting.. I'll leave it to you.

QuoteMerielle was obsessed with stories, and her bardic nature was more the retelling of epic poems and tales of valor... and of trying to star in them herself.

Well, here's her chance.. sadly, it wont be the kind of story she read so often. ^^

QuoteAwesome characters, gang! I'm glad this is getting some traction now.  :-)

I agree. If you want to go back on deciding you didn't want to join after all that all be yours to decide.

QuoteI'm definitely thinking it was College of Valor, just with an extra emphasis on stabbing things herself. ;D Can't remember if I wanted her to take a few levels of Warlock - I do love that class - but there seem to be enough here that I can just stick with Bard, if y'all want me around. ;)

I'll leave that to the other players. I think you could properly stack Valor Bard and bladepact 'lock, but how well it would play I can't certainly tell you.

QuoteYou and an opposing player each swap your books and do PvP sorta Choose your own Adventure, as each page has different sword-fight actions you take and the page to turn to for it. You can see an image on each page seeing either the opposing player's character get hit by your attack or a pic of them posing provocatively as they attack you. It's pretty awesome if you dug Choose your own Adventure books as a kid.

Sounds interesting.. though I just know I'd rather want to make a game myself out of that. ^^

QuoteHi, I am a first timer so this would literally be my first DnD ever. I want to play a rogue dwarf who will become a secondary warlock. I have the character sheet but I do not know how to attach the file. Its on myth weavers. Please let me know asap as I would love to get the ball rolling.

As I told you in the chat, show me what you are made of, if I like the character, happy to deal with a few newbie questions .. plus I'm sensing a strong warlock-subtheme here. Perhaps, thoug not necessarily, I could link the settings lore to that to some degree.. ^^

QuoteShoutbox conversation, I think. Sad, too, since I was rather looking forward to that Tiefling! I mean, I suppose I understand not wanting to wade through a lot of text, if that's not someone's thing, but I hope no one gave him the impression that he'd have to write one...

Yeaah I dunno. I tried to be encouraging, by no means are huge posts or charactersheets necessary.. nor are they discouraged. 

Roleplay Frog

Anywhoo! with things picking up, I created an OOC and a character thread: See here!

So we can (more or less) focus on characters and questions related to joining up here and I don't scare anyone off with massive quote-post-answers. :P

p.s. I reviewed all of your characters while listening to Disney music and YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!

p.p.s. It was this though.

William Blake

Funny, I've been listening to metal covers by Leo Moracchioli. :P

William Blake

QuoteI'm fading genuine snuff stuff to black. Perversion and corruption otoh.. You however are invited to get a bit dark in your backstory introduction of how she came to this setting.. I'll leave it to you.

I am generally opposed to snuff as a sexual On or interest - not morally, mind you, if that's your thing, but it's not my taste. However, I makes for a fucking poignant way for Merielle to "go", so to speak, and solidifies her character in this context very well, so... I'm making an exception. Besides, we all have to die, in this campaign. Some of us die fighting for our lives. Merielle is no exception, save that her murderer was killing her for more deviant reasons.

QuoteOur party seems to start leaning towards evil. I can work with that *evil DM snickering noises to be heard*

She's a good person at heart. Or... was. She just has a nasty, vicious streak the expresses itself in certain contexts. ;D She's Neutral, leaning good in most decisions and evil in her treatment of those she finds reprehensible.

QuoteOne of the ideas of the setting, yes. I feel that by using 'Dead' characters in this setting, it adds a level of .. uh.. *insert your favourite artsy word here* to the roleplay.. and most people that played online for a while have one or two of those characters they really liked that just kinda.. fell off.

Oh, that fits Merielle. But, I specifically like the idea of her having died, rather than just playing her alive and well adjusted for a new campaign. I think she, as a character, works really well for it. She has a good reason to be dead, after all, and some very interesting potential thoughts about it.

Onto rolls! I'll use Orokos, if you don't mind, because I'm still unfamiliar with the site's dice roller.

Stats
16 (+3)
13 (+1)
13 (+1)
12 (+1)
12 (+1)
7 (-2)

A little bit different from her original spread, but I think I can work with it. :D Especially because her CHA bonus is now fucking hilarious, though her Dex will suffer a bit.

Level 2 Health

Things are not coming up Merielle. This is what I get. I should have just taken the average. :P

I'll avoid the Trinket Table, for now. Keep in mind I love that table; it has a Sheriff badge, a 9-Volt battery, and other wonderful, dumb shit hidden in it, but I believe she had rolled a 64 - "a pyramid of sticky, black incense that smells very bad" - which I believe represented the funeral pyre for the pet mouse she got for having the Urchin background. ;D

Are we using Feats, by the way? I love Feats, but I know they're technically an optional rule in 5e.




Diabolus Lupus

Quote from: Deva on April 10, 2018, 03:31:05 PM
Perra Baharoosh

Fetish just bestiality? Well, I can certainly comply ^^, though I must ask what you think about corruptive/transforming concepts?
Mechanicswise, solid meatshield chassis, poke when updated.

That's all that had come to mind in the I was working on it. I'm gonna add more.

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: William Blake on April 10, 2018, 04:56:29 PM
I am generally opposed to snuff as a sexual On or interest - not morally, mind you, if that's your thing, but it's not my taste. However, I makes for a fucking poignant way for Merielle to "go", so to speak, and solidifies her character in this context very well, so... I'm making an exception.

Sounds good.
Quote
She's a good person at heart. Or... was. She just has a nasty, vicious streak the expresses itself in certain contexts. ;D She's Neutral, leaning good in most decisions and evil in her treatment of those she finds reprehensible.

So she's a person? :P
Quote
Oh, that fits Merielle. But, I specifically like the idea of her having died, rather than just playing her alive and well adjusted for a new campaign. I think she, as a character, works really well for it. She has a good reason to be dead, after all, and some very interesting potential thoughts about it.

I agree, also,.. well, not spoilering what I'm thinking, you'll see soon enough. :P

QuoteOnto rolls! I'll use Orokos, if you don't mind, because I'm still unfamiliar with the site's dice roller.

W/E. I got a D100 on my desk as a playtoy, I'ma do whatever with the dices myself. :P
Quote
Things are not coming up Merielle. This is what I get. I should have just taken the average. :P

You got the excuse of her demise leaving a few psychic marks.

QuoteI'll avoid the Trinket Table, for now. Keep in mind I love that table; it has a Sheriff badge, a 9-Volt battery, and other wonderful, dumb shit hidden in it, but I believe she had rolled a 64 - "a pyramid of sticky, black incense that smells very bad" - which I believe represented the funeral pyre for the pet mouse she got for having the Urchin background. ;D

The fluff? I neve bothered with rolling my characters backrounds but.. oook. :P

QuoteAre we using Feats, by the way? I love Feats, but I know they're technically an optional rule in 5e.

Look at the charsheet real close, I included them just in case as they do change things up
That said, as half elf you'll have to wait 2 levels before you can grab one, they come at the cost of the +2 to an attribute you get otherwise.

QuoteThat's all that had come to mind in the I was working on it. I'm gonna add more.

I'll let you think up your own dirty joke in regards to your first thoughts being that. :P

p.s. between myself and Williams use of it there's way too much tongue showing smileys in this one.

William Blake

QuoteSo she's a person?

Given the rigid morality system in use by DnD and my specific thoughts on it, I'd say that's not necessarily something you can just ASSUME about a character. ;)

QuoteThe fluff? I neve bothered with rolling my characters backrounds but.. oook.

Oh lord, I NEVER roll for background. But Urchin gives her a mouse and I love the Trinket Table, and I didn't want her having a mouse OR a pyramid of stinky bullshit, so I elected instead of write a cute scene in an otherwise dark tale about a sad girl having a private funeral for one of her closest tiny friends. It was a good way to show she wasn't completely broken. ;D

QuoteLook at the charsheet real close,

Well there's my problem. ;)

Next up: character sheet!

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: William Blake on April 10, 2018, 05:20:01 PM
Oh lord, I NEVER roll for background. But Urchin gives her a mouse and I love the Trinket Table, and I didn't want her having a mouse OR a pyramid of stinky bullshit, so I elected instead of write a cute scene in an otherwise dark tale about a sad girl having a private funeral for one of her closest tiny friends. It was a good way to show she wasn't completely broken. ;D

you know, with some people it's hard to find storyline hooks and angles to get to their character at. You're the opposite.

Diabolus Lupus

Quote from: Deva on April 10, 2018, 05:09:59 PM
I'll let you think up your own dirty joke in regards to your first thoughts being that. :P

Well, I am playing a barbarian. They're only what two steps above farmers, right? >:)

Anyway, I have more or less finished my character and edited the sheet. I'm honestly open to experimentation with this character, so I don't really have many listed fetishes.

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: Deva on April 10, 2018, 03:31:05 PM
an interesting set of rolls you got yourself, also gz for making me look up teratophilia which I at first translated as 'liking four things at once' You'll do fine. :P

What can I say, whenever there's four of anything I just can't help myself :P

QuoteI'll let you keep your gun redesigning the shortbow, because I like the writeup and it's clearly a dear item for him. (plus, by design, it is antithetical to a rogues sneaking strategies, so I can make it strong without overpowering you).
Treat as shortbow +3 with a drawback of needing a full round reload if fired consecutively six times, also, not a silent weapon at all roleplay/stealthwise. Don't expect to easily find ammunition.

Woo, my boy gets to keep his gun! Those sound like some reasonable drawbacks to having a gun though and I'm pretty sure that's how PF handles them anyway. So since its six shots, does that mean its a revolver again? Cause I changed it to a more old timey pistol when you said that I should tone down the western-y bits.


Roleplay Frog

Well, the six shot is less a weapons lore and more a game balancing thing for me. I could make it a move action to recharge, but as you're a rogue, you don't give a crap about your move action thanks to dash. Plus, feels not quite fitting.
I could also make it a standard action a blip, but that'd be a bit cruel, even with it having more of a punch to it than an arrow.

Then again, considering the limited ammunition, perhaps you want it as a once a fight tops option only?

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: Deva on April 10, 2018, 06:36:12 PM
Well, the six shot is less a weapons lore and more a game balancing thing for me. I could make it a move action to recharge, but as you're a rogue, you don't give a crap about your move action thanks to dash. Plus, feels not quite fitting.
I could also make it a standard action a blip, but that'd be a bit cruel, even with it having more of a punch to it than an arrow.

Then again, considering the limited ammunition, perhaps you want it as a once a fight tops option only?

Yeah, I think it would just make more sense to have it as a weapon that packs a wallop, but with severely limited use. Given the rare ammo plan, I like the idea of the gun being a sorta 'emergencies only' kinda thing.

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: ThatFantasticBard on April 10, 2018, 07:03:53 PM
Yeah, I think it would just make more sense to have it as a weapon that packs a wallop, but with severely limited use. Given the rare ammo plan, I like the idea of the gun being a sorta 'emergencies only' kinda thing.

Ok, let's go with giving it a single shot, full standard needed to reload. I think that wont break the setting and the gun was something close to your character, so I'm ok with it, it's little different from a spell for fantasy world inspired characters, seeing its limitations.

Experience tells me that rarely do rogues use up all their bolts/arrows anyway, I just kinda gave you an incentive to actually make use of 'em. :P

schnookums

Hmm, I'm a bit worried about this going the direction of an "evil" campaign, as I generally don't play that sort of character. I hope I hadn't misconstrued the core idea of the game.

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: schnookums on April 10, 2018, 07:20:46 PM
Hmm, I'm a bit worried about this going the direction of an "evil" campaign, as I generally don't play that sort of character. I hope I hadn't misconstrued the core idea of the game.

You didnt misconstrue anything, the fact that there's several evil characters is something that sorta just happened. But I don't think anyone made the kind of character who just goes around doing evil things. Just slightly looser morales.

ThatFantasticBard

Deva, that link you posted for the 'noose around neck' idea doesn't seem to be working and now I'm really curious as to what it could of been. :^(

schnookums

Oh, I forgot to post the first set of stats I had managed to roll:

13 8 7 7 7 4

Yeah, tossed that character right out of the airlock

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: schnookums on April 10, 2018, 09:22:33 PM
Oh, I forgot to post the first set of stats I had managed to roll:

13 8 7 7 7 4

Yeah, tossed that character right out of the airlock

I'm actually impressed that you managed to get your rolls so low. :p

William Blake

Quote from: schnookums on April 10, 2018, 09:22:33 PM
Oh, I forgot to post the first set of stats I had managed to roll:

13 8 7 7 7 4

Yeah, tossed that character right out of the airlock

That's amazing. Truly amazing. Fabulous and incomprehensible.

William Blake

#130
Name: Merielle Silverfrond (Mella Liadon)
Class: Bard
Race: Half-Elf
Backround: Urchin
Alignment: Neutral

Description: Tall, slender, and moving with absurd grace, Merielle's features favor her elven heritage more than her human side. With pale, olive eyes, pointed ears, and proportions that are just slightly off the human norm, Merielle makes for a gorgeous specimen - if not slightly off putting, to those unused to non-Humans. That is, when she's trying. When Merielle isn't trying, she has a resting scowl, a dissatisfaction and bitterness that lend a here a severe, almost cold quality.

Merielle has a rather obsessive proximity to her equipment, as odd as it is on her. Her weapons - a rapier and a dagger - are not of the same design, or intended to be worn together, as one might expect from a parrying dagger; instead, while her rapier is exquisite - blade just broad enough for cutting but delicate enough to dance between ribs, hilt sweeping and ornate with only a single mar: a scratched out marking on the pommel that could have once been a symbol of some kind - the dagger is relatively nondescript and is more cousin to the longsword than the rapier. And, though often unwilling to play it, Merielle’s lute (a beat up, aging thing) almost always goes where she goes.

A lengthy description of her best asset: her voice.
In her role as a bard, a storyteller, and a temptress, Merielle relies heavily on her voice. As a result, she has a silvery timbre and precise enunciation despite her slight accent and penchant for inflection that leaves her words hanging in the air like a sugary aftertaste no matter how quickly or shortly she expresses herself. When she speaks plainly, she has a voice like burnt honey, melodic and sweet but deeply bitter. Her singing voice is rich, full of depth and - at times - even haunting. While “performing”, Merielle chooses a rhythm and tone she intuits will be enticing to her target, sometimes drawing her words out into slow, smoky mysteries and other times feigning bashful innocence.

Perhaps as a side-effect of bardic magic, her tone carries a certain ethereal quality, just slightly resonant in effect and that allows her to vary her speech somewhat more than other people. Those who have not travelled far from human lands often assume it is an effect of her elven blood, but despite elven voices often being beautiful, Merielle does not recall meeting another elf with a voice quite like hers. Regardless of the reason, Merielle’s words are often captivating no matter how sharp or biting and her music is more complex than a one might expect from a single singer.


Fetishes: Domination/slavery (as Domme or sub), humiliation, cumplay, corruption, non-con, denial and rules, most other things not on my Dislikes
Dislikes: Scat, vore

Backstory

Growing Up "Half"
Half-elves were not, where Merielle came from, exceptionally common. Which is to say, she had been the only one she had ever heard of, right up until she came face to face with another one, just like her, at the age of sixteen and, by then, the price for curiosity had already been paid. Curiosity was what had driven her, though, because information had been so rare and no one, let alone herself, seemed to know what to do with her.

She had been born Mella Liadon to an Elven clan of the Northern Forests, daughter to Isserial Liadon, the Clan's historian. Home had smelled of rich earth, had been all open air and rusting leaves. At the time, she'd wanted to leave it, but... when she looked back, it was clear Isserial had seemed overjoyed to have her, even if the fact that she was only half Elf would have given other mothers pause. That she was not entirely one of them never seemed to change how her mother treated her, though she would not talk of the girl’s father - it was the one story she would never tell Mella, no matter how insistent the young elf was. Instead, Isserial lavished Mella with tales and epic songs of elven history and events of great import, and the clan as a whole accepted and named her as a full elf, despite the difficulties her impetuous nature presented.

And it did present. Mella felt... unwhole, and as much as she treasured every scrap of Elven lore, what Mella really wanted to know about was Humans. Her mother rarely told them, never sang songs of Human champions or told the stories of Human achievement. When she spoke of that short-lived race, it was always in association with the Elves. All the times they had warred. When, briefly, to combat the Black Witch, they had come together. It was enough. Her obsession led her to memorize the stories of Aramil the Uniter, who gathered the dispersed Northern Clans of Wood Elves and rallied their forces to combat that ancient Necromancer. She sought these stories because, in them, Aramil interacted with all the other races of her region... including Humans. And of those stories, Mella loved Withbane the most. She memorized that epic song, practiced it alone in the woods until she new, by heart, the epic detailing the final battle with the Black Witch and, in her favorite verses, the contributions of Aramil's archers and scouts as they worked alongside the heroic and valiant Order of the Dragon's Blood.

Of course, life wasn’t all stories and songs. Despite their insistence that the young Mella was no different than any other elf it was hard for the clan to keep up with her growth. True elf children couldn’t be considered adults until after their 100th year of life, when they would then take an adult name and be treated as such, but the truth was that measure was over half of Mella’s lifespan... more complicated was the fact that, despite doubling the short lives of humans, she matured at their breakneck pace. Mella far outstripped her peers, and with her quick development came the quick onset of troubling questions and that vaunted human free spirit.

The more her clan tried to make her an elf, the more she wanted to be a human. She started to skirt the edges of their forests, learning stories and histories from human hunting groups and caravans - at least, the ones that looked friendly enough - trading tales old and new for songs of her own. She was hooked, enamoured by a world that felt distant and forbidden… a world that offered a chance to explain the pendant around her neck, the only thing she had of her father. She longed to be there, to learn their stories and practice their magics and soak up their culture.

Her mother forbade it. “Humans are dangerous, Mel,” she’d say, “you know the stories.” Mella fumed. Her mother was ignoring the bigger picture - there were places down South where Elves and Humans had not had problems. The former less… secretive. The latter less backwards. The Order of the Dragon’s Blood and other knightly fraternities would be there to uphold that sense of equality. There was a place for her to be, Mella knew, and it was one Isserial refused to see. She matched her mother’s determination with her own.

Mella and Isserial had frequent fights about her visits to the edge of the forest. In truth, the young elf was lucky she had not been killed, or worse - the world is a hard place for a girl of any race, and venturing alone into strangers’ camps was a poor decision. Neither viewed the issue with reason, however; Mella longed to explore the part of her heritage her people denied and Isserial was more concerned with the fact that Mella was exposing herself to the world of humans than to any real danger. After one such fight, this one particularly nasty, the sixteen-year-old elf had stolen away from camp on her own. Her clan was barely a day and half away from the town by foot, and Mella had always been fast....


Into Human Lands
She had miscalculated. Mella Liadon had run from home at the age of sixteen - an adult by nearly no one’s standard. She had with her a pair of trinkets, a single set of clothes, a small knife, and a fledgeling talent for prestidigitation. She had brought along her dreams and hopes, a plan to sell songs and stories and lore for a chance to live in one of those fabled Human cities, to meet its knights, and to learn its story, but life was not what she had expected.

Not only had Mella not planned ahead, but any planning she might have done would have been for naught. Her mother may not have been right, but neither had she; while not explicitly violent, these Northern Humans had no respect for elves, at least not in their own domain of stone and steel. She found herself worse than a second class citizen, both Elven and poor. Desperately, she turned towards her songs as a source of aid, hoping to make her way as a bard. Surely, story and verse lived independent from race, melody apart from prejudice...

To a degree, she was right. There was a market for elven entertainers, certainly, though she didn’t find out until after she bought into the promises dangled before her by her new agent that it was nothing like she had envisioned. By the time she had realized the full price of her  naivety, it was far too late to back out; in all but name, she was indentured to her agent, as were all the other elven girls (and the odd few men) in his employ. A few months after that, when she had more or less been purchased like a commodity, was when she had met someone else like her. Like her in so many ways: also a half-elf, also alone, and also a commodity.

Of course, Mella had never been stupid; her agent had just been more clever. She was not immediately thrust into the world of Elven trade and disdain the moment her soul was signed away in ink. Her singing was evaluated. She was taught new music, trained to play the lute (which she had been familiar with already), then the flute. She performed at taverns, always dressed as she might have imagined befitted the word “wench”; it had been demeaning, but her agent promised that it would get better. All stars, he told her, had to start somewhere, and until they could sell her on reputation and skill they had to rely on her looks. It had sounded reasonable, though part of Mella seemed to know better.

Gods, how her naivety had cost her!

Within two years she was Mella Silverfrond, private entertainer; her last name, translated to Common, “slid from the tongue better,” though Mella did not mind the change. In this way, the licentious way her name fell from clients’ lips had no chance of soiling her heritage. Mella was hired away to parties, sometimes individuals - an exotic curiosity, a "civilized Elf" -, all to play music and sing songs and dance - to offer some reprieve from her clients’ daily lives. There were boundaries - her clothes were not to be removed and she was not to be touched, let alone bedded - but boundaries blurred with the flow of mead and hands became curious. Unsure and alone, Mella knew nothing to do besides retreat further into herself.


A Rose By Any Other Name
It took four months of humiliation, objectification, and emotional withdrawal for Mella to take her adult name. Nothing about her felt like a child anymore, and her increasing disengagement from the world around her demanded that she hide everything about who she had been deep within herself. Mella became Merielle, and Merielle became the kind of person who could live the life of an Elven "bard". The change was rapid: the woman hardened and softened in equal measure, becoming more adept at charming her clients and meeting their expectations as well as at protecting herself, physically and emotionally, from the realities of her work.

Her “agent” approved. Perhaps he thought he had broken her; perhaps, in a way, he had. Now that she appeared docile, Merielle was trained in more high class forms of entertainment, completing her education on the viol alongside a curriculum of courtly etiquette and culture. It had seemed absurd for such a small town, but then she understood: when she was deemed ready, she was rented to lavish affairs as a statement piece. There were still cities in the North that were wary of Elves, despite being large enough to support the kind of culture she had been trained to inhabit. Her frontier town, her agent, were revealed as what they were - at least, the truth of it in her mind: they were outposts in the border between two worlds, Elven and Human, and, like lumber, she was their export. Further from those outskirts, but away from more tolerant areas where High Elves were common, Merielle was… appreciated. Where a human bard might be appreciated for the music and artistry they could bring to an event, Merielle was as much a part of the art as her music, her agent the artist. More than ever before, the young elf felt like an object, perhaps a pet, especially as the courtly rules dictated her silence and submissiveness even more than her professional rules.

Merielle quickly learned that the rich could afford a certain leeway with the rules of general conduct. Oh, there were still boundaries - that she did not work for a brothel was a paramount illusion. Brothels, she was told, were more strictly regulated. Scrutiny of that kind could not be afforded, not with the laws in the greater Kingdom preventing exactly what had happened to her. But threats and coercion made it very clear that the only real limit, with enough coin, was Human hands on her skin. She could be made to perform in other ways. And still, Merielle did… because she knew, had perhaps always known, that her owners made exceptions even to that unexceptable rule - that there were specific people, to specific clients, under specific circumstances, that were worth the risks of selling their bodies.

For all her fear, Merielle only seemed the servile, demure elf girl. At home, she practised her craft at magic with determination. Ironically, her career as a “bard” brought her deeper understanding of the arcane flows about her; she saw them measured as verse, cadenced like song, and she discovered she could weave power into her performance… first though her lute, which she owned herself, then through her singing and, with practice, her voice in general. She learned to inspire and cripple the men and women who hired her with nothing but a few notes or a few whispered words, and her demand at work soared - a demand for the kind of cultured company that left her clothes mostly on her body and her hands mostly on her lute.

Magic wasn’t the only skill the elf mastered. Her career and her personal life demanded adjustments. She learned to be stealthy, so that she might arrive at or leave a venue with discretion, though the skill served her elsewhere… especially when she had to take to thievery to survive. Though she was often in the employ of wealthy clientele, Merielle saw only a fraction of the profit. Enough that she was not, legally, a slave. She also became adept at disguise, a talent that began as an attempt to seduce her clients into giving her larger tips, but slowly evolved to allow her to hide her elven heritage at markets… perhaps even look like someone else entirely.

The young elf woman stopped telling stories, however. In her childhood, she had told many stories; when she did so, her eyes would light up and she would feel the history about herself as if it were real. She had loved stories with all her heart… and, in truth, she still did. They were, possibly, the one thing that made her happy, and she was loathe to have her stories, like her name, soiled by the exploitations of her profession. Over the years, she had slowed her telling of stories, but had consciously drawn a hard line when she had been pressed at a small gathering of wealthy tradesmen and, since then, she found any way she could to offer a substitute for storytelling. Still, it didn’t stop her from whispering them to herself when she felt truly alone, seeking companionship with the heroes who lived in the words…


Sharp Edges
As her storytelling dwindled, Merielle quickly developed a taste for blades. The first person Merielle earnestly hurt, with cold, physical violence instead of power-infused words - the first time Merielle felt a man’s blood coat her hands - was when she was nineteen. She was working for the worst sort of client (wealthy and sleazy), and in the hopes of earning enough to eat she had done nothing about his clumsy, drunken gropes. By now, Merielle could stymie the man with magic and words alone, even drive him screaming from the room with her powers. Had it been a better day, she may have; instead she withdrew into her mind, her body dancing languidly and without thought.

Her defenses dropped, she hardly noticed the minor noble grow more aggressive with his exploration, until he had her against a wall and her mind froze. Incapable of finding, let alone drawing on, the soft rise and fall of magic that would send the man reeling, she desperately pawed at the table next to her. Time was running out - he was pushing her head down, unbuckling his belt, and she scrambled, scrambled, until -

With a loud clatter she knocked a wine goblet from its perch, reaching, searching until her finger found the blade of a dagger, half-embedded in a block of cheese. Ignoring the cut, she seized it, thrusting the weapon into the man’s armpit. He staggered back, pulling the blade - and Merielle - with him, until he twisted to fumble towards the bed, freeing the blade and leaving it, dripping with blood, in Merielle’s hand.

She fled, and didn’t look back. The law looked back for her, but it was determined that the stabbing was in self defense and - seeing as the client had been violating the ostensible ground rules of the agreement forced upon her agency - her work had no choice but to take her back, and she no choice but to go back to it. Ever since then, she always carried the dagger with her, and that noble’s blood was not the last tasted by the little blade. Merielle had cause to stab three more men and - surprisingly - one particularly vile woman. Her bosses had not at all been pleased, but they stopped just short of making her attempts at self-defense worth the anguish they brought her. After all, for some reason, her "agent" never raped her, and that was enough.

So it had continued, her life diverging ever further from what she had hoped it would be with each passing week. In her time with Humans, Merielle encountered a great deal of things that she found distressing. Yes, she had learned a good number of Human legends, absorbing the songs and ballads of Human heroes, but these things came at a cost - the girl who, unjaded and enthusiastic, had wanted those stories. Even her favorite epic became tainted, as she heard through gossip the true fact of the Black Witch: lengthy torture and execution, a far cry from the heroic battle she had believed preceded it.

Other things, too, had changed her, and not for the better… but what truly broke her heart was the fall of the Knightly Orders, in her esteem, from their vaunted position at the top of her list of heroes into the detritus of her other discarded hopes. When she had been exploited, both for her gender and race, the knights had not been there to save her. Worse, as she played her viol or danced in the distance of galas, she saw her heroes among the crowd, and it was a rare few whose eyes regarded her with any more recognition of her personhood than the nobles around them. She had come to expect it of common folk, and had even excused nobles as corrupt, gripped by ennui and affluence, but to be downtrodden by her most idolized figures tore any last conscious vestige of hope for a better life from Merielle. Once, she had hoped her father had belonged to one of those esteemed orders; now, she wanted nothing less.


Last Petal Plucked
Her fall completed, Merielle did not shrink into nothing. Her owners may have thought breaking her hopes was the best way to break her spirit, but it simply took away her ability to care about consequences. She became more brazen and less choosy about who tasted the blade of her knife. Despite a general distrust of magic, in the North, due to the roaming hoards of undead left behind by the Black Witch's necromancy, Merielle became more open about her abilities… but using them on clients. Misery for misery - Merielle had stopped caring. She might have been near a breaking point, a crisis of identity that finally empowered her to just… flee. It didn't matter, was the conclusion she was coming to - anything would be better than this.

She was wrong. Merielle was told to pack her bags for a long trip and report to the minor castle of a knight, both estate and outskirts stronghold. Away, she'd thought. Perhaps a chance at something different. And, as always, Merielle had been right - in a way. It had been so different. He had smiled, kissed her hand; it was like a song... for a moment. He was entertaining brothers-in-arms, he'd said. She was to be their entertainment. At first, it had been fine, but, as the night grew darker, so too did the knights' requests: lewder songs, more risque dances, more humiliating topics of conversation. That her heroes might disdain her from a distance had been hurtful enough, but to be so mistreated so directly by knights of any order put her on edge - enough that she didn't notice it coming until it was too late.

Dinner was ushered away by servants, but Merielle's company was still demanded. To the game room, they'd suggested. She had complied. The door closed and locked behind her, and all Merielle could bother to think was that, perhaps, she was lucky that it really had been a game room, after all. Elk heads and fur rugs and large chairs… but the blades. The collection of blades. Merielle turned, and there they were. The knights. Her heroes, with avarice in their eyes.

Survive. That was the goal, and Merielle tried everything to attain it. She had offered, performed favors that she had nearly killed men over in the past. It hadn't been enough. Even with cum staining her chest and the smile she wore so convincingly to show how much she liked it, liked them, they still reached for the knives. She had done everything right. She didn't understand -

The lengthy torture and execution of the Black Witch.

A half-elf. Like her.

It had always been their intention. But why had her owners broken the rules, sent her-?

She had caused problems. She had not been docile enough. She drew attention. She needed to be rectified.

Merielle Liadon would not be rectified!

The first knight to near her with a knife screamed and ran. None of the others heard the awful, terrible whispers she had sung in his ear as he clawed for the locked door. She scrambled backwards, away from them, but one lashed out with a knife, slashing open a bleeding wound. But a drop of blood and endless hatred were all she needed, and the spell Bane left him uncharacteristically unable to pin her down. She writhed away.

"She's a fucking witch!"

Merielle reached for a blade. Not one of the small ones, like they had. Nothing surgical. Something from the game room itself. An elegant rapier - a knight's weapon. An actual weapon! She clung to it like a stable trunk in a vicious storm. Hers. The blade would be her salvation. Determination and fury would be her allies.

She killed one of them before they'd adjusted to her violence. Perhaps they'd never seen a woman with torn gossamer about her waist and semen still dripping from her breasts wield a weapon with such unrestrained, unashamed intent. That death felt… glorious. She was smeared now with blood, another fluid to join the menagerie clinging to her. Sweat, tears, spit, and everything else and now blood. She grinned triumph.

It almost didn't matter when they overpowered her. She had taken their fun. She had made her death memorable. Dead at 22. But she had made them pay for it. And she had won a quick death - she was too dangerous to toy with. Wrists pinned to the stone beneath her, Merielle was still grinning when they put the knife to her throat…


Background Summary
I'd appreciate it if you could read the full background! ^_^ But I understand that I wrote… like, far too much, and so I won't be offended if you rely on this to get to know Merielle.

Merielle Silverfrond died at 22. She had been born Mella Liadon to a Wood Elf Clan in an area of the Kingdom where Elves are mistrusted and magic viewed with suspicion, the woman who would be known as Merielle had almost no advantages in life. A half-Elf with magical talent, she at least had a loving - if not ill-fitting home - with her mother, the Clan historian. Unfortunately, as much as Mella adored stories, she wanted to learn more about humans. Eventually fed up, Mella ran away to the nearest sizable village.

Life did not improve for Mella. With no money, almost no talents, and the wrong species, Mella had few options. She threw her lot in with a local agent to bards, but he was nothing more than a pimp and a brute. A clever one, though, Mella didn't find out until it was too late. Somewhere just shy of an actual prostitute - the company couldn't afford the kind of scrutiny those regulations would bring - the next few years wore Mella down. She translated her last name to Silverfrond to preserve some bastion of her identity, then eventually took the adult name Merielle of her own accord, no longer able to feel like a child at all.

Despite what should have broken her, bits of Merielle remained unscathed. She worked on magic, practiced arts of deception and seduction, learned to get places unseen and work her way to wherever she wanted to be. All to survive. The pinnacle of that was her work with blades, and she took to carrying a dagger. Its judicious application kept her out of all the wrong kinds of trouble.

Eventually, Merielle went too far. Gave up enough that she stopped caring about walking that thin line of survival. She hurt the people who hurt her - misery for misery. It was noticed, and she was sent on her last performance: to a gang of knights who wanted nothing more than to rape and kill a young elf. Merielle. Dead, at 22 - but she made them pay for it, and she died grinning covered in more blood than hers….


Ability Scores
Str   - 7 (-2)
Dex - 14 (+2)
Con - 14 (+2)
Int   - 12 (+1)
Wis  - 12 (+1)
Cha - 18 (+4)

HP: 13/13
Hit Dice: 2d6
Armor Class: 13 / 12 (In / Out of armor)
Proficiency Bonus: +2
Initiative Bonus: +2
Speed: 30 ft
Saving Throws proficiencies: Dexterity (+4) and Charisma (+6), All Others (+ [Mod+1])
Languages: Common, Elvish, Dwarvish
Skill and Tool proficiencies:
Skills
Deception (+6)
History (+3)
Insight (+3)
Performance (+6)
Persuasian (+6)
Sleight of Hand (+4)
Stealth (+4)
All Others (+ [Mod+1])
Tools
Disguise Kit
Musical Instrument (Flute, Lute, Viol)
Thieves Tools

Equipment and items:
Rapier
Dagger
Small Knife
Leather Armor
Lute
Healer's Kit
10 uses left
Rope, Hempen
Map of Her Home City
Leather and Metal Woven Bracelet (Elven)
Metal Pendant of a Knightly Order (Human)
Common Clothes
Belt Pouch
4 gp

Entertainer's Pack
Backpack
Bedroll
Costumes (x2) (Both revealing: 1 "Trashier", 1 "Fine Clothes" or at least fashionable)
Candles (x5)
Rations (x5)
Waterskin
Disguise Kit


Feats: None

Attacks:
Rapier: Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d8+2 piercing damage.
Dagger: Melee Weapon Attack, Thrown: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or 20/60, one target. Hit: 1d4+2 piercing damage.


Spellcasting:
Spell Save DC: 14
Attack Bonus: +6

Spell Slots:
1st - 3/3

Cantrips:

  • Prestidigitation
  • Vicious Mockery
1st Level:

  • Bane
  • Cure Wounds
  • Dissonant Whispers
  • Healing Word
  • Heorism
Racial and Background Features
City Secrets When not in combat, she (and led companions) can travel between two locations in a city twice as fast as normally allowed by speed.

Darkvision 60'

Fey Ancestry You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.

Class Features
Ritual Casting Can cast any known bard spell as a ritual, if possible.

Spellcasting Focus Can use instrument as a focus for bard spell.

Bardic Inspiration Use bonus action on your turn to choose one creature (other than self) within 60' who can hear you. That creature gains a Bardic Inspiration die (d6), which can be used within 10 minutes to add the die to any one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw. Can wait until after d20 is rolled, but before results dicated. Can only have one Bardic Inspiration die at a time. Can use this feature Cha mod (4) per long rest.

Jack of All Trades Add half proficiency bonus (rounded down) to all ability checks that don't already include proficiency bonus.[

Song of Rest If you or any friendly creatures who can hear your performance regain hit points at the end of a short rest, each creature regains an extra 1d6 HP.

Spell Shorthand
Prestidigitation Mages toolkit; good for smut. Trust me.

Vicious Mockery Action out to 60'; insult creature who can hear (but not necessarily understand) for Wis throw vs. 1d4 psychic damage and have disadvantage on next attack before end of its next turn.

Bane Action to cause up to three seen creatures to make Cha saves or -1d4 from attacks and saves. Concentration up to 1 minute. Material component: drop of blood.

Cure Wounds Action to touch creature; it regains 1d8+4 unless undead or construct.

Dissonant Whispers Action out to 60'; chosen creature who can hear must make Wis save or take 3d6 psychic damage and use reaction to move as far as possible away from you. Won't move into obviously dangerous ground. Half damage on successful save.

Healing Word Bonus action to 60'; seen creature regains 1d4+4 HP. No effect on undead and constructs.

Heroism Action to touch willing creature; until end of spell, creature is immune to fright and gains 4 Temp HP at the start of each of their turns. Concentration up to a minute; Temp HP lost when spell ends.

Notes!
The Fetishes and Dislikes on this character sheet are mine, not Merielle's. Merielle pointedly does not like some of the things on that list. If pressed, she would identify as dominant, for example, not switch or sub. Merielle is bisexual, but currently troubled by F/F pairings due to being forced for pretend for customers. See if you can't change that, I guess. ;)

Possible planned multi-class to Warlock. I know. Haha, fuck me, so many Warlocks. Could be fun for plot reasons, though

Soundtrack


Level: 2
XP Total: 300

Additional Images
"Working" Merielle

Happy Merielle

Potential Corrupt Merrielle
Domme

Sub (Actually NSFW)

Roleplay Frog

QuoteYou didnt misconstrue anything, the fact that there's several evil characters is something that sorta just happened. But I don't think anyone made the kind of character who just goes around doing evil things. Just slightly looser morales.

Yeah that, you certainly don't have to be evil.

QuoteDeva, that link you posted for the 'noose around neck' idea doesn't seem to be working and now I'm really curious as to what it could of been. :^(

Weird works fine for me. Guess I'll have to throw in the full youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsObv4b-qYg

QuoteOh, I forgot to post the first set of stats I had managed to roll:

13 8 7 7 7 4

Yeah, tossed that character right out of the airlock

That's a record for what I've seen certainly.

Merielle Silverfrond (Mella Liadon)

Character looks promising, you just got some backstory pruning/adjusting to do *chuckles*
Mechanics wise: You're rich yo. Not all of those will play a role I'm sure, but that amount of gold alone doesn't quite fit the rest of what you presented to me so far, nor a lvl 2 character.

Random fantasy music for the bard, might as well music this one up. :P: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKEqKDvRdo4




William Blake

Background is up. Didn't prune. I... don't like pruning. But I offered a quick summary for those less inclined to reading absurd jaunts through history! :D

Bard gold is 5d4x10 is it not? Here's the roll: 110. Plus the 10 for Urchin... yeah, the CRB assumes Bards are not underpaid and neglected sex slaves.

I'd be happy to drop the excess gold. :P Justification for other items:

Book and ink and shit she took from home/collected. She loves stories, and likes writing new ones down.
Healer's Kit because she has a tendency to get banged up.
Thieves's Tools collected over years.
Lamp for reading. ;) Gotta read.
Perfume and Rope because... shenanigans. I almost bought manacles, before I realized it'd horrify her.
Fine Clothes to blend in.

The rest was just handed to me via things. Oh! That reminds me: I can remove one of the costumes from the Entertainer's Kit, if you want. It got... messed up, rather badly. Not sure what state we start in, but if it's how we died...  :-[

Any of the rest of it can be ruled to have been left at home. But I like being prepared, and I have no idea if there's even going to be an opportunity to spend coin. Still tried to justify everything I bought but, you're right, sure feels like a ton. O.O

tuckers02

Hi, I'm interested in playing.

It looks like there's only the bard that's applied as a healer so I was thinking of throwing my hat in that ring.  What about a human mystic (psionic restoration discipline) with a haunted one background?

If that's okay, I can start character creation when I get home tonight.

Diabolus Lupus

Quote from: William Blake on April 11, 2018, 10:22:08 AM
Bard gold is 5d4x10 is it not? Here's the roll: 110. Plus the 10 for Urchin... yeah, the CRB assumes Bards are not underpaid and neglected sex slaves.

Unless I'm mistaken, which I very well could be if this is a house rule situation, starting gold/equipment is usually either roll and buy a la carte, or take the listed equipment from background and class, including the little bit of gold leftover.

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: tuckers02 on April 11, 2018, 02:08:39 PM
Hi, I'm interested in playing.

It looks like there's only the bard that's applied as a healer so I was thinking of throwing my hat in that ring.  What about a human mystic (psionic restoration discipline) with a haunted one background?

If that's okay, I can start character creation when I get home tonight.

Right now we still got 4 slots open, feel free to show me what you got.


QuoteBard gold is 5d4x10 is it not? Here's the roll: 110. Plus the 10 for Urchin... yeah, the CRB assumes Bards are not underpaid and neglected sex slaves.

Bah. :p Anyway, I'ma belive you because I'm waaay too lazy to calculate all of that through. I approve the characters as they are, any changes due to the setting, we will see once the setting starts.

Now then.

Merielle

A longer backstory is not necessarily a better one. Some spelling derpups, however:
Quoteella was no different than any other elf - save for her penchant for magical tricks
Doesn't fit 5.0 lore were many elves can grab a cantrip if so inclined. But thats pretty much the only grievance I can find in all of that, your character is the second to fully fulfill the main criteria I have.. I want to write for them.

Merielle is Approved

Feel free to post her into the charsheet thingie.

QuoteUnless I'm mistaken, which I very well could be if this is a house rule situation, starting gold/equipment is usually either roll and buy a la carte, or take the listed equipment from background and class, including the little bit of gold leftover.

I'll allow either, to enable more diverse characters as desired. I can easily adjust anything as the game gets going.


William Blake

QuoteA longer backstory is not necessarily a better one.

Well thank goodness I write lengthy pieces because it makes me happy and not because it makes me feel superior to other people. :P

And, you know, because I'm just frustratingly wordy. Ask me how my limited-to-500-words graduate school entrance essays are coming! ;D

QuoteDoesn't fit 5.0 lore were many elves can grab a cantrip if so inclined. But thats pretty much the only grievance I can find in all of that, your character is the second to fully fulfill the main criteria I have.. I want to write for them.

Shit. Knew I shouldn't have tried to edit/condense that at stupid-thirty in the morning. Good catch, I'll make sure it's fixed ASAP.

QuoteMerielle is Approved

Yay! Thank you.

QuoteUnless I'm mistaken, which I very well could be if this is a house rule situation, starting gold/equipment is usually either roll and buy a la carte, or take the listed equipment from background and class, including the little bit of gold leftover.

Yup. Yuuuuuup. That's what I get for thinking I knew the 5E rules well enough to make a character blind. I'll go remove all that extraneous gear. Looks like Merielle left a bunch of stuff at home before she went off to get murdered!




(The armor is there because... I don't know. I PM'd Deva about it.)

Roleplay Frog

I knew that read like a lot of gear. *chuckles* 
Technically the poor elf died with little on her, most likely, but let that be the DM's worry. Y'all just write the character as you would at the start of an adventure.

And I had to say that 'longer no equal better' bit to make sure you'd not scare off folks with your big writeup. :P

William Blake

Ha! Fair point. If only other things were long enough to give people pause... ;)

I kid. Enough tongue in cheek smut humor - I should probably get back to cleaning. Glad to be part of this! Loving it so far.

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: William Blake on April 11, 2018, 06:20:13 PM
Ha! Fair point. If only other things were long enough to give people pause... ;)

I kid. Enough tongue in cheek smut humor - I should probably get back to cleaning. Glad to be part of this! Loving it so far.

*raises eyebrows, chuckles* Oh, no no, I'll hand you the worst innuendo trophy for that. Is yours until someone underbids you. *nods*

Unrelated note, for anyone that still ponders about it, I had a pm-battle with Wander, basically he'd rather have a dice-action than a story heavy campaign and this campaign is likely to lean more towards story.

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: Deva on April 11, 2018, 06:29:25 PM
Unrelated note, for anyone that still ponders about it, I had a pm-battle with Wander, basically he'd rather have a dice-action than a story heavy campaign and this campaign is likely to lean more towards story.

Really? I thought it was kinda implied that this would be a more story based thing. Oh well, at least we seem to have a good amount of new applicants coming in.

Roleplay Frog

Hey, I had one application going 'well this is a comedy game because there's tentacles' so *shrug*

I'll be spoiled for choice, yes, seen some good concepts that just needed a few final touches, just give me a poke if your character is ready @folks.

Kathyan

Quote from: Deva on April 10, 2018, 03:31:05 PM
Ssezseehsa Zsistu "Zashesa"

Snek girl:
I find the 'all but snek' bestiality exlcusion interesting, is that IC or OOC as well, just to be clear? Asking cause, looking at characters about, bestiality might well become a big thing. ^^
Hawtest Yuan-Ti I've seen in a while, but you portray their racial attitude apropriately, so not like I mind that.
I have two things I need to poke at with your backround, one is who or what assaulted her and the other is her patron. I -think- you want to leave that open for me to decide, I'd like to take that opportunity for her patron gladly, but also work with you there, Hexblades by design make pacts with sentient weapons, is that what you have in mind?
As for who killed her, I'd say missing a report and getting all too snuggly with humans is reason enough for the Yuan-Ti to take her out, just want this to be cleared as we start.
Mechanics: I'm ok with the snake-reflavouring of things overall, obviously non abusable. Do tell me about the snake-whip, does that play into your hexblade?
Overall, looking pretty good, just needs some clarifying.
The bestiality thingis mostly a OOC thing too although I sometimes make a few exceptions to it, now as I said the thing is I'm not fond of non sentient animals so if bestiality is to be a big thing there could be smarter animals, in terms of game animals with int scores of say 6 or 8 or even higher, they don't have to be able to speak at all although that might be cool too ;).

About her background yes I left a couple of things vague on purpose, about her patron yes I had in mind the usual thing and was planning on leaving that to you but we can talk about it as well as who assault her/them as probably you'd like to use that for story cohesion. Also I didn't specified who she was interested in nor their gender as I thought that if we are allowed to know someone else before handed there might be someone(s) interested in that. It was a bit late so I forgot to mention that sorry ^^

Cool about the reflavoring and yeah non abusable at all mostly reskins and I'm not sure about you mean with the snake whip but yeah it plays into the hexblade.

tuckers02

My first set of rolls was 13, 11, 11, 10, 9, 5 *sigh*

I went ahead and rerolled.

schnookums

Congrats tuckers02 on the second worst set of rolls!

tuckers02

#145
Name: Azderal (I don't remember my last name.  In fact, I don't remember most of my childhood, everything before the last couple years of my captivity has been lost.  I don't even know if Azderal is really my name or if my constant companion is even real...or if it's my mind's attempt to keep my sanity)
Class: Mystic (I developed my mental abilities through the years of my captivity where I could do little else)
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 23 (Or somewhere in there I've been told)
Backround: Haunted One
Feature: Heart of Darkness Those who look into my eyes can see that I have faced unimaginable horror and that I am no stranger to darkness. Though they might fear me, commoners will extend me every courtesy and do their utmost to help me. Unless I have shown myself to be a danger to them, they will even take up arms to fight alongside me, should I find myself facing an enemy alone.
Alignment: LN (I am disciplined and prefer structure in life.  But don't try to make excuses or justify yourself because I have no patience for those that have little resolve.)
Description: I was once a cute young girl with dark hair and smooth porcelain skin.  But that was before my captivity.  Now my entire body is marred with scars from years of torment.  I hate what I have become and try to keep as much of me covered as I can so no one else can see...and so I'm not reminded of the pain.  My hair is a darker now, almost black, from the years with no sun.  The scars across my face detract from my big brown eyes that were once full of innocence.  The scars that cover every inch of my slim, 5'8" frame are all healed but obvious without the covering that I will fight tooth and nail to cling to.
Fetishes: The torment I went through has left a lust and need for the domination and bondage that I once disdained.  Shhh, I'll never admit it though and fight like it's for my life.
Dislikes: There is nothing that I haven't suffered and eventually come to accept, but pain and torture are still what trouble me the most.
Mystic Quirk: I often speak to an imaginary companion (Zral), and act only with its blessing.
Personality Trait: I don’t talk about the thing that torments me. I’d rather not burden others with my curse.
Ideals: I’ll stop the spirits that haunt me or die trying.
Bonds: I keep my thoughts and discoveries in a journal. My journal is my legacy.
Flaw: I feel no compassion for the dead. They’re the lucky ones.
Backstory: I am haunted by my past and what happened to me those most unfortunate years of my life.  I have vowed never to allow myself to return to such a state and would rather die than suffer as I did.  To that end, I have taken up the obligation to save those who suffer as I did and strive to bring justice to the monsters, literally and figuratively, that bring such evil to the world.  I just hope that in the process I don't succumb to the temptation to become she that I despise most.

Ability Scores(+Modifiers)
Str 15 (+2) [I had to become strong in order to keep myself up when the pain became unbearable.]
Dex 16 (+3) [When you are bound and helpless, you learn that even the slightest of movements can turn a potentially bloodying hit into a bearable bruise.]
Con 16 (+3) [Over time the body gets desensitized to those things that happen time and time again.  For most it is just the mundane.  For me, it was much more.]
Int 16 (+3) [When there was nothing else I could do in the few times I had peace or most of those times I had no control, the only thing I could do is meditate.]
Wis 9 (-1) [My will was broken long long ago.  I have done my best to piece it back together but like a shattered teacup, there will always be cracks.]
Cha 12 (+1) [I used to be a beautiful, outgoing, naive girl.  But now I am scarred and reserved with no innocence left.]

HP: 22/22
Hit Dice: 2d8+8
Armor Class: 16
Initiative Bonus: +3
Speed: 30'
Saving Throws proficiencies: Int, Wis
Skill and Tool proficiencies: Skill Insight, Medical, Survival.  (My ordeal gave me insight into Evil, the intimate knowledge of the body's reaction, and taught me how to survive on my own.)
Languages: Common, Infernal (learned from listening to the Devil that kept me), and Goblin (for those shitty minions of his that he'd loan me to as a reward)
Equipment and items:
Spear: +4, 1d6(d8v)+2
Explorer's Pack

a Backpack
a Bedroll
a Mess kit
a Tinderbox
10 torches
10 days of Rations
a Waterskin
50 feet of Hempen rope

Monster Hunter's Pack

a chest
a crowbar
a hammer
three wooden stakes
a holy symbol
a flask of holy water
a set of manacles
a steel mirror
a flask of oil
a tinderbox
3 torches.

A pocket watch that runs backward for an hour every midnight.

Disciplines and Talents Psi Points 6/6 Limit 2
the Order of the Immortal:

My hit point maximum increases by 1 per mystic level.
In addition, while I am not wearing armor or wielding a shield, my base AC equals 10 + Dexterity modifier + Constitution modifier.

Mystical Recovery:

I can draw vigor from the psi energy I use to power my psionic disciplines.  Immediately after I spend psi points on a psionic discipline, I can take a bonus action to regain hit points equal to the number of psi points I spent.

Telepathy:

My mind awakens to the ability to communicate via telepathy.  i can telepathically speak to any creature I can see within 120' of me in this manner.  I don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand my telepathic messages, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language or be telepathic itself.


Talents: (at-will)
Energy Beam:
Through shear will and determination, I learned to harness the power of the elements around me.
As an action, I can target one creature I can see within 90' of me.  The target must succeed on a Dexterity Saving Throw (DC 16) or take 1d8 acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thrunder damage (my choice)


Disciplines:
Adaptive Body:
Because of the unrelenting torment I endured over the years, I learned to survive without food, air, and sleep.

Psychic Focus: While focused on this discipline, I don't need to eat, breathe, or sleep.  To gain the benefits of a long rest, I can spend 8 hours engaged in light activity, rather than sleeping during any of it.

Environmental Adaptation (2 psi): As an action, I or a creature I touch ignore the effects of extreme heat or cold (but not cold or fire damage) for the next hour.

Crown of Disgust:
I have learned to master my fear to the point that I can incite it in others.

Psychic Focus: While focused on this discipline, the area in a 5' radius of me is difficult terrain for any enemy that isn't immune to being frightened.

Eye of Horror (1-7 psi): As an action, I choose one creature I can see within 60' of me.  The target must make a Charisma saving throw (DC 16).  On a failed save, it takes 1d6 psychic damage per psi point spend and can't move closer to me until the end of it's next turn.  On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

Psionic Restoration:
From the constant torture, I learned to control my body with my mind to the point that I could instantly heal others with a touch.

Psychic Focus: While focused on this discipline, I can use a bonus action to touch a creature that has 0 hit points and stabilize it.

Mend Wounds (1-7psi): As an action, I can spend psi points to restore hit points to one creature I touch.  The creature regains 1d8 hit points per psi point spent.




History (not for the faint of heart)

Dear Diary:  Where do I start?  I don't remember my childhood.  I can only assume that I was a happy child.  I can't remember the faces or voices of my mother and father.  Did I have siblings?  It is so hazy and a lifetime ago.  Clerics estimate my age at early to mid twenties.  How they can tell from all my scars I don't know.  What they do tell me are that the oldest of my scars are close to 10 years old.

So where to begin?  At the beginning I guess.  At least as far as I can remember.  Yeah, this is hard for me.  I can't even talk about it.  How am I supposed to write it down?  But Zral says that it will help me.  Oh, Zral?  He's the one that taught me how to focus my mind and eventually allowed me to escape.  I don't know why an Imp would help me escape from a Devil.  Then again, no one else can see or hear him so it's far more likely that he's not even real, just a manifestation of my mind to help me cope.  He does seem quite reasonable for an evil creature.  Though he does urge me to do bad things at times.  Maybe that's why I imagine him as an Imp.

Oh right!  Getting off track.  Yeah, it doesn't take a genius to see I'm stalling myself because I really don't want to think about it.  Okay, beginning, Chain Devil.  My first memories was being the captive of a Chain Devil.  I remember I didn't have as many scars back then so it must have been early on after he obtained me.  I don't remember how.  Probably kidnapped me while I was playing or walking or something.  He went easy on me at first.  I didn't think he was back then, but comparing that to what he did the last few years and...well trust me, that was easy.  He'd torture me for hours, sometimes days with no chance to sleep and just scraps of food to keep me alive.  He wanted to corrupt me.  Such a pure young soul as I was and he loved to hear me scream and fuck did I scream.  Sometimes I wonder how I can still talk.  He'd cut me and beat me and whip me.  And those were the things that my mind didn't block out.  Itches of memories I don't dare scratch.

I remember being stubborn, strong willed.  I remember holding out hope that I would be rescued.  I wasn't of course and he eventually broke me.  I gave up.  I lasted what I'm guessing was a few months but I finally gave in and resigned myself to my fate.  I wasn't going to be rescued.  I wanted to die.  I wanted release in the only way I could get it and also deprive him of his little vulnerable toy too.  But the thing about Chain Devils?  Those damn chains.  They moved on their own and if I tried to do something that would have let me kill myself, they'd always stop me.  And then he'd know and I'd be 'punished'.  I put that in quotes because looking back I don't think it would have made any difference.  He would have done it anyway.  That was just his excuse at that time.  It's so strange, I am deathly afraid of being bound but I carry around a set of manacles.

Zral is scolding me for getting off the subject again.  So, chains, bound, helpless, defiled, tortured.  I'm guessing 3 years?  Oh, no, that's not when I escaped.  That's when I hit rock bottom.  I broke in a few months but he could still make me scream and beg and prey for death for 3 more years.  By that time I wondered if there were gods.  And if there were, how could they let it go on like this.  To this day they can all go fuck themselves for all I care.  By the end of those 3 years that Chain Devil had done everything he could do to me just inside of killing me himself so many times that it didn't bother me anymore.  He couldn't hurt me, he couldn't humiliate me, and of course he wasn't going to let me die because then I would have won.  It just became just a daily chore.  Do whatever he wanted me to do, suffer what he thought I expected from him, then do it all again.  Am I ashamed, regretful, guilt-ridden for helping him torture others like he tortured me?  No, I'm not.  I had no choice.  Oh, don't judge me until you've spend 3 years in hell.  I'm scared, I'm scared I'll become the monster that he made me.  I don't want to become the monster he was turning me into.  But I don't regret it, I'd do it again in the same situation, and if I slept, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Zral's getting on to me again.  Oh!  That's why!  Yeah, totally broken.  No will left.  And you know what they say when you're on the bottom.  Yep, that's when Zral first appeared to me.  This is why he kept nudging me on.  He wanted me to get to this part.  So, 3 or so years into my torment and I was just a mindless husk.  Then this Imp appeared.  He started talking to me and for the first time that I can remember I had something to do other than wait for the pain to be over.  It was hard at first.  It still hurt and it was still impossible for me to concentrate enough to carry on a conversation.  But little by little it got easier and easier.  As it did, the pain got less and less.  My thoughts got clearer.  It took a long time but lets be honest.  Every day seemed like an eternity and I thought I was going to be there for at least 50 more years before he let me die.  Time at that point didn't matter.  So I got stronger and stronger.  piecing my mind back together little by little.  It took longer to mend than it had to break.  Broke me in just months, shattered me in 3 years.  To put myself back together took almost twice as long.  5, maybe 6 years?

But I was doing stuff I never was able to do when I was young.  I learned to restore my energy when he wouldn't let me sleep.  I learned to force my body to heal, mind over body.  I learned to call and shape the elements in the room to do my biding with just my mind because I had nothing else.  So how did I escape?  The Chain Devil let his guard down.  He had done it before but I hadn't been in a position to take advantage until this time.  He opened the cage and I could tell his mind was distracted.  Probably something mundane.  That's when I showed him what I could truly do.  I took all my fear and despair and disgust that I had built up over the years and I thrust it all into him.  You should have seen his face.  Everything he had done to me over all that time washed over him in seconds.  He dropped to his knees begging for it to stop.  Imagine the greatest evil you've ever known groveling like a goblin coward.  The chains loosened around me and I was able to pull myself away.  I ran out of there before he had a chance to snap out of it.  I wasn't a fool  I knew I didn't want to be there when he finally got a hold of himself.  I ran out of there as fast as I could not even stopping to look at the thing Zral told me to grab on the way out.

I ran for three whole days.  Naked in the snow and it didn't even phase me.  I was barely tired by the time I got to the village.  They took me in as soon as they saw me and I must have passed out because I honestly don't remember much after that.  For the next, I don't know, month or so I learned to reintegrate into society.  It was hard for me, I didn't take to it well.  And when I met that slaver, I snapped.  Killed him with fright with just a thought.  Zral was all giddy and beside himself.  I freed the slaves but the townsfolk was now scared of me.  I knew my true calling then and so Zral and I set off to free those that suffered as I did.  Met up with a group of like minded adventurers and went on a few adventures. 

So how did I die?  No, I didn't finally kill myself.  My group and I were traveling when I split off from the group to find some food and was surrounded by wolves.  When they caught up to me, Zral had the great idea to have the wizard cast fireball centered on me.  I'd survived much worst, so that's what I told him to do.  I didn't survive.  All that and a fucking fireball did me in.  Oh, that thing I grabbed from the Chain Devil's lair?  A watch.  One that for some reason goes backwards an hour at midnight.  Why?  I don't know.  But I can't seem to bring myself to part with it.  Maybe it's a trophy.  And Zral better be telling me the truth that no body will be able to read this but me or I'll ring his scrawny-ass neck.

William Blake

You out-darked Merielle. By a good deal, too.



Kinda hoping that concept gets approved. Having someone worse off than her to shake her out of complacency might be exactly what Merielle needs to not give in to brooding bullshit that could so easily turn her away from what she's supposed to be doing. :P Fun interactions, either way.

Roleplay Frog

I'll get to reviewing and answering soonish, (I have learned, the regrettably hard way, that the way to building a sucessful, long lasting campaign is to approve characters only when I am utmost certain of them, so I set aside a little time for each character ready for approval)

but in between, let me say, at this rate I have a strong urge to include at least a few genuinly nice npcs to satisfy my inner sad hug urge thingie.


tuckers02

Quote from: William Blake on April 12, 2018, 01:50:57 AM
You out-darked Merielle. By a good deal, too.



Kinda hoping that concept gets approved. Having someone worse off than her to shake her out of complacency might be exactly what Merielle needs to not give in to brooding bullshit that could so easily turn her away from what she's supposed to be doing. :P Fun interactions, either way.

Thanks,  I have a couple incarnation of this character and she's always a healer in a fantasy setting.  And that part about being killed by a fireball she told the caster to throw actually happened.

Not sure she can help shake Merielle out of complacency cause Azderal is in the same boat.  Maybe they can make a pact to keep each other honest.

William Blake

Hmmm. No, I think having someone around who might need her to care about their problems and try to help them would be good for her. She used to take care of the younger girls who wound up in her situation, and doing something similar would be comforting and grounding. Left to her own devices, Merielle has enough hatred and apathy to wind up quite the villain. :P

But we should maybe avoid pacts. I think Azderal might be good for keeping Merielle honest and vice versa, but I don't think making pacts is going to work out for poor Merielle. ^_^

Kind of hilarious that the fireball thing happened actually.

tuckers02

Okay, maybe pact is too strong a word?  :p How about an understanding?

I know Az will be glad to find someone that kind of understands her.  And she would really appreciate someone bringing her to some senses if she starts slipping back to her old ways.  And she'd totally do the same if she noticed it in someone else.  Is that more what you were thinking?

William Blake

Haha! Warlock joke. Though if I want to multiclass and go dark without the influence of a patron, Necromancer Wizard would be hilarious. Merielle drawing parallels between herself and the villain, the great bogeyman of her youth... That would be a good "fuck you" to the world.

Yes. That's what I mean. That and some of the aforementioned hugs and comfort and sympathy. And perhaps a nice Domme-y touch, if it's needed. :P

ThatFantasticBard

Seeing as lengthy backstories are seeming to become the norm, any chance I can redo Ellie's? Or I guess re-redo, since I cut stuff before posting it. If it gets too crazy long, I can just put a tl;dr section like William did, but I don't think it'll be that big?

tuckers02

Ah!  Heh, now I get it.  She can make a pact with Zral! Or would that actually be with AZ...since Zral "might be" imaginary?

Another incarnation of this character actually did become a Tormentor at the end of one of the 3.5 campaigns I had her in.

William Blake

That's pretty neat. I don't remember enough of 3.5 to know what that is, so I'll probably google the SRD. Work is boring in that way. :D

*makes notes - if Merielle falls, she takes Az with her!* Mwa ha ha ha!

But yes, I have a similar inclinations towards hugging all the sad people. So I may seek opportunities for Merielle and Azderal to bond. Double meaning pointed and intended.

I think she'll also approve of Ellie's roguish and self-sufficient nature. They could get along like a wildfire, if Merielle could be coaxed out of her shell.

I'm not sure how she's feel about the others, yet. We'll have to see. ;D

tuckers02

Quote from: William Blake on April 12, 2018, 12:16:55 PM
*makes notes - if Merielle falls, she takes Az with her!* Mwa ha ha ha!

Hee hee, that's Zral's goal.  And I think he'd love to have a sexy accomplice.

Az is all for hugs...and other things.  It's really her insecurities with her scars that holds her back.  If someone can overlook them, they'll have her affection.  This is a double-edged sword though as if someone can bluff it, she could end up in a very bad situation.

There's not much that can embarrass or shame her.  Zral is the exception though.  Being at one with her psychie, he knows and constantly teases Az with things specifically to embarrass her.   So there will be times that Az will just suddenly blush and become flustered all of a sudden or start carrying on a completely inappropriate one-sided conversation with herself.

Kathyan

Quote from: ThatFantasticBard on April 12, 2018, 10:21:52 AM
Seeing as lengthy backstories are seeming to become the norm, any chance I can redo Ellie's? Or I guess re-redo, since I cut stuff before posting it. If it gets too crazy long, I can just put a tl;dr section like William did, but I don't think it'll be that big?
I wanted to go through all the backstories but a couple of them were just too long and didn't fully read them and while I had ideas about Zasesha's life before leaving to human lands I don't think I'll expand mine except to give more details her patron or her demise.


Quote from: tuckers02 on April 12, 2018, 07:26:13 AM
Thanks,  I have a couple incarnation of this character and she's always a healer in a fantasy setting.  And that part about being killed by a fireball she told the caster to throw actually happened.

Not sure she can help shake Merielle out of complacency cause Azderal is in the same boat.  Maybe they can make a pact to keep each other honest.
Haven't gone through that ever, lol

Anyway I'd love to partake and get into the same boat but I deeply doubt Zashesa would be honest to anyone like ever, much less to a human. I guess I'll have to find a niche between the deceivers of the group. ;D

William Blake

QuoteAnyway I'd love to partake and get into the same boat but I deeply doubt Zashesa would be honest to anyone like ever, much less to a human. I guess I'll have to find a niche between the deceivers of the group. ;D

Oh, Merielle will lie to anyone and everyone, about anything. She's quite the little actor. And, with a +6 to Deception, she's fairly adept at it. ;) She just might make certain exceptions.

QuoteHee hee, that's Zral's goal.  And I think he'd love to have a sexy accomplice.

Well, if she goes down the Domme route, however she gets down there, she might just try to drag Az in as a sub. Or she may try to acquire Az to be a slave alongside her, if the other route. If we think it's interesting. Or, you know, they could help each-other out and, like, succeed. Wouldn't that be funny?

QuoteAz is all for hugs...and other things.  It's really her insecurities with her scars that holds her back.  If someone can overlook them, they'll have her affection.  This is a double-edged sword though as if someone can bluff it, she could end up in a very bad situation.

Oh, she'll like Merielle. Merielle isn't bothered by scarring at all. "All the best heroes have scars." - The more Mella opinion. "They just show how much stronger than everyone else you are." - The positive-but-jaded Merielle opinion. I think Merielle is very accepting. She grew up with a lot of difficulty and discrimination, and she isn't about to do that to someone else (except in those blindly inconsiderate areas of trauma - there are groups she absolutely disdains as a matter of course).


tuckers02

Az will easily overlook the lying.  Everyone has secrets and she's done things she won't own up to as well.  Betrayal is a completely different matter though.

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: William Blake on April 12, 2018, 12:16:55 PM

I think she'll also approve of Ellie's roguish and self-sufficient nature. They could get along like a wildfire, if Merielle could be coaxed out of her shell.


I can definitely see Ellie trying to warm up to Merielle once he gets over his initial distrust of the group. Getting betrayed does cause one to be a little on edge, something I'm sure Merielle could agree with. :P

tuckers02

That's one thing you don't have to worry about Az is betrayal.  She'll slit your throat without hesitation is she thinks you warrant it, but she won't lead you on.

William Blake

Merielle's MO is betrayal. :P

Let me clarify - she's a performer, a trained seductress, and a survivor. Merielle will be exactly what you want her to be... Until she has what she needs. But that's how she treats enemies. None of you are enemies. That doesn't mean she won't lie to you. She'll lie through her teeth to protect herself, especially emotionally. But she won't betray you.

Also, lol, Merielle as group mom. How did this happen? (Wait... Group mom. Does that mean I have to add incest to the fetishes?)

tuckers02

That makes Ellie group dad?

And Az would be fine at the family pet :o

William Blake

Quote from: tuckers02 on April 12, 2018, 04:24:43 PM
That makes Ellie group dad?

And Az would be fine at the family pet :o

As the only boy? Yeah, probably.

Roleplay Frog

*flails at all the responsening*

Busy with a thing, will dig through this all tomorrow evening. *nodnod*

ThatFantasticBard

Quote from: William Blake on April 12, 2018, 04:33:52 PM
As the only boy? Yeah, probably.

I mean, seeing as they're not a literal family, I don't think they have to be a guy to be the group dad. Ellie generally doesn't wear the pants literally or figuratively.

tuckers02

So looks like so far:
Approved
Rogue - Sneak
Bard - Sneak/Arcane/Healer

Unapproved
Barbarian - Tank
Hexblade - Arcane/Tank
Mystic - Healer/Tank

Am I missing anyone or anyone drop out?

William Blake

Sneak includes dex-based weapon damage, right? I think Ellie and Mella are set up for that.

What non-combat capabilities do we have? We have a Bard, so we have everything. :P But really, her focus is thief stuff, Deception/Persuasion/Performance, and a bit of History.

tuckers02

#168
Az non-combat abilities:
Skills: insight, medical, and survival

Equipment: monster hunter's kit

Abilities:
No need to eat, breath, or sleep
Endure Elements for up to 3 people for an hour
Telepathy so can communicate with any creature with as long as it has a language

schnookums

You missed my Kitsune Warlock, I'm still working on the background though

Kathyan

For non combat abilities we also have two warlocks with: disguise self at will, friends and deception, investigation, thieves' tool proficiency. Talk about similarities :P
But I foresee they could very well work together as infiltrators.

And speaking of differences between warlocks Zashesa also has silent image at will and speak with snakes at will, insight and bluff, magic resistance and poison immunity and is melee instead of ranged as Kitsuko is. I also just noticed I forgot to choose 1 known spell.

tuckers02

#171
I see some people are putting in theme songs for their characters.  For Az, I think something from Emily Autumn would fit best.  What do you all think?
Gothic Lolita
I Want My Innocence Back
What If
Swallow
Lucy Has Some Leaches

William Blake

I'll go listen to those in a bit! Until then, accidentally found this and, as a Bard with Sweet Dreams as a theme song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UimyAzjEyWU

ThatFantasticBard

I'll have to listen to those later too. But for Ellie, I'm probably just gonna steal the video Deva posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsObv4b-qYg

Diabolus Lupus

Hmm, if this is the trend, I'll have to figure out a good theme for a dragon barbarian.

William Blake

Quote from: ThatFantasticBard on April 12, 2018, 11:47:30 PM
I'll have to listen to those later too. But for Ellie, I'm probably just gonna steal the video Deva posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsObv4b-qYg

Yeeesssss so excellent

Quote from: tuckers02 on April 12, 2018, 08:46:21 PM
I see some people are putting in theme songs for their characters.  For Az, I think something from Emily Autumn would fit best.  What do you all think?
Gothic Lolita
I Want My Innocence Back
What If
Swallow
Lucy Has Some Leaches

Listened to them all. Interesting! Fitting, two. Especially, I'd think, the first three.

Quote from: Diabolus Lupus on April 13, 2018, 01:03:15 AM
Hmm, if this is the trend, I'll have to figure out a good theme for a dragon barbarian.

Do it. Doooooo it. But I'm biased. I love music to get into the right headset.

Diabolus Lupus

Quote from: William Blake on April 13, 2018, 01:48:51 AM
Do it. Doooooo it. But I'm biased. I love music to get into the right headset.

I'm open to suggestions. I'll take a look through stuff when I get home from work too, so I have something to look forward to.

tuckers02

#177
Quote from: William Blake on April 13, 2018, 01:48:51 AM

Listened to them all. Interesting! Fitting, two. Especially, I'd think, the first three.

I don't think the first is as relevant anymore since her escape.

I think the second one is perfect for her, but I don't think it's exclusive to her as it would probably fit Mella just as well...and probably others depending...

I think the third one fits the ironic paradox that is Azderal perfectly so that's probably the one I'll choose.

The last one is I think the perfect representation of Azderal's mental state.

Quote from: Diabolus Lupus on April 13, 2018, 01:03:15 AM
Hmm, if this is the trend, I'll have to figure out a good theme for a dragon barbarian.
What about 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings'?

tuckers02

Quote from: ThatFantasticBard on April 12, 2018, 11:47:30 PM
I'll have to listen to those later too. But for Ellie, I'm probably just gonna steal the video Deva posted.

Now Azderal's pocket watch has a purpose :p

Quote from: William Blake on April 12, 2018, 11:41:14 PM
I'll go listen to those in a bit! Until then, accidentally found this and, as a Bard with Sweet Dreams as a theme song...

Az would fall asleep snuggled against Mella if she sang this version of it to her
https://www.youtube.com/QUvVdTlA23w

Diabolus Lupus

Quote from: tuckers02 on April 13, 2018, 07:24:53 AM
What about 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings'?

Interesting choice. I like it. Though now I'm torn between that one and I Stand Alone.

William Blake

Quote from: tuckers02 on April 13, 2018, 07:24:53 AM
I don't think the first is as relevant anymore since her escape.

I think the second one is perfect for her, but I don't think it's exclusive to her as it would probably fit Mella just as well...and probably others depending...

I think the third one fits the ironic paradox that is Azderal perfectly so that's probably the one I'll choose.

The last one is I think the perfect representation of Azderal's mental state.

Quote from: Diabolus Lupus on April 13, 2018, 09:29:56 AM
Interesting choice. I like it. Though now I'm torn between that one and I Stand Alone.

Be like me. Have a whole list. :D Did you spot it hiding in my character sheet?

Soundtrack

Sweet Dreams, being a wonderful summary of Merielle's outlook, as performed in an appropriately haunting-yet-sacchrine way.
Unbreakable Heart, as a measure of relience and to remind me that Merielle has the grit to improve her life.
Down with the Sickness, for when she flips shit.
Thoughtless, as a wonderful summary of her background.
Help I'm Alive, for when she's scared to get close to people and be vulnerable again.
In The Night as another good summary of her work.
Shatter Me, to remind me she could fall in love.

Quote from: tuckers02 on April 13, 2018, 07:48:07 AM
Az would fall asleep snuggled against Mella if she sang this version of it to her
https://www.youtube.com/QUvVdTlA23w

Alt Version? I'll have to check it out. Though I'm still inevitably drawn to the Emily Browning version I linked above for Merielle. I think it fits her voice better. ;)

tuckers02

Quote from: William Blake on April 13, 2018, 10:38:28 AM
Be like me. Have a whole list. :D Did you spot it hiding in my character sheet?

Soundtrack

Sweet Dreams, being a wonderful summary of Merielle's outlook, as performed in an appropriately haunting-yet-sacchrine way.
Unbreakable Heart, as a measure of relience and to remind me that Merielle has the grit to improve her life.
Down with the Sickness, for when she flips shit.
Thoughtless, as a wonderful summary of her background.
Help I'm Alive, for when she's scared to get close to people and be vulnerable again.
In The Night as another good summary of her work.
Shatter Me, to remind me she could fall in love.

Alt Version? I'll have to check it out. Though I'm still inevitably drawn to the Emily Browning version I linked above for Merielle. I think it fits her voice better. ;)

I do love Emily Browning's haunting version.  But it doesn't have the undertone of rage that the Marilyn Manson version has that would resonate with Azderal.

I did see the list!  The first think that came to mind when I saw 'down with the sickness' was Merielle singing it Richard Cheese style to a room of pompous nobles paying little attention to her.

William Blake

Quote from: tuckers02 on April 13, 2018, 11:13:06 AM
I do love Emily Browning's haunting version.  But it doesn't have the undertone of rage that the Marilyn Manson version has that would resonate with Azderal.

I did see the list!  The first think that came to mind when I saw 'down with the sickness' was Merielle singing it Richard Cheese style to a room of pompous nobles paying little attention to her.

*quietly adds tuckers to his list of favorite people*

I have that version on my phone.

Ahem. But yes. Rage. Merielle is a little bundle of it, so they'll get on well - or kill everyone, which I still think qualifies - but you can't let it show. Not in Merielle's profession. Thus, Emily Browning's version. She could perform that to nobles, too. ;)

tuckers02

That gives me the idea of the perfect theme song for Zral.

'Ready to Die' by Andrew W. K.

Roleplay Frog

Alright, let's go to responding proper. Excuse the large post, I bolded the characters to make it hopefully easy to navigate.


Ssezseehsa Zsistu "Zashesa"

We're all good on bestial things then, because you'll more face monsters with .. quasi sentience. Rping simple beasts is not overly interesting any way.
I dunno what a snake-whip is, statwise, can you link me up?
Also, hrmnnn.. A warlock has an idea about their patron, if that is completely accurate is another thing.
However, due to the settings inner workings, I want a clarification on your characters death. It is quite.. vital, ironically. ^^
QuoteI had ideas about Zasesha's life before leaving to human lands I don't think I'll expand mine except to give more details her patron or her demise.

That is all good.. I have not approved her yet, but I enjoy what I see, so basically, answer the two things above and you're good to go... oh you know what, screw it, you promise to fill/clarify those soon and I'll Approve of the snek.

Azderal

Disdain for being revealed in conjunction with fighting for bitter life when confronted with lewdities leaves the character a bit teethering on the edge of 'too extreme'. I have to advice you to tread with caution in that regard. We're meeting for darker themes, yes.. but also erotica. Remember, that for a character to feel misery and despair, they also have to have hope. You propably know that too ofc, but it bears repeating.

Now, to dig into your backstory. I like the subtle implications, the literary devices, also, definitly a possibility of a character, a dark fate, that few dared to explore. To me, sounds like a deliberate attempt to make a broken soul, albeit by one not quite skilled enough for the process, to the characters luck.

The character sheet checks out in the 'WTF do they do' way psions do, either way.

As I said, be cautious about diving too deep into the darkness, however, I can see the work you put into your character, little choice but to.. Approve!
Feel free to post your character and make silly jokes in the OOC.

QuoteKinda hoping that concept gets approved. Having someone worse off than her to shake her out of complacency might be exactly what Merielle needs to not give in to brooding bullshit that could so easily turn her away from what she's supposed to be doing

You're welcome. :P

QuoteSeeing as lengthy backstories are seeming to become the norm, any chance I can redo Ellie's? Or I guess re-redo, since I cut stuff before posting it. If it gets too crazy long, I can just put a tl;dr section like William did, but I don't think it'll be that big?

Far be it from me to ever stop you from writing. The only thing large writeups carry as a caveat, here or IC is that they delay my responsening, by making me review and potentially respond longer myself.

QuoteAnyway I'd love to partake and get into the same boat but I deeply doubt Zashesa would be honest to anyone like ever, much less to a human.

An interesting story of either redemption.. or indulgance in ones own darkness, we will tell. Oh ohohoh *rubs hands enthusiastically*

Perra "Bearclaw" Baharoosh

I am still not satisfied with the backstory you send to me. Review my first posts suggestions and consider updating. I am happy to answer any unclarities.

This leaves us with four approved characters total, and three more in a considerative balance. I am quite eager to start this campaign proper within 48 hours, but for now, giving folks time to complete uncompleted characters and give last minute suggestions.

Also, pondering a song from -my- perspective.. hrmnn.. something for the OOC. ^^

Kathyan

Quote from: Deva on April 13, 2018, 02:40:45 PM
Ssezseehsa Zsistu "Zashesa"

We're all good on bestial things then, because you'll more face monsters with .. quasi sentience. Rping simple beasts is not overly interesting any way.
I dunno what a snake-whip is, statwise, can you link me up?
Also, hrmnnn.. A warlock has an idea about their patron, if that is completely accurate is another thing.
However, due to the settings inner workings, I want a clarification on your characters death. It is quite.. vital, ironically. ^^
That is all good.. I have not approved her yet, but I enjoy what I see, so basically, answer the two things above and you're good to go... oh you know what, screw it, you promise to fill/clarify those soon and I'll Approve of the snek.

Ok, glimpses of cleverness are cool. Simple Beasts are not only not interesting but a turn off for me, with a few exceptions made from time to time. :P

About the snake whip I just thought it'd be an interesting way to call it but it would be just a whip stat wise, I thought it would be a whip which masde out from a snake but it could also be just a whip which resembles a snake.

Her patron I havent given much thought to but the first that occurs to me is a living sword with a blade that waves live a snake, something like Ivy Valentine's sword from Soulcalibur.

And if you want clarification about her death, I assume about the identity of those who killed her, I think I'll go with bad luck and say they ambushed by brigands say hobgoblins. I would rather prefer that her disguising has been good enough as to lose any yuan-ti following her and say that it was not any criminal seeking revenge not only to avoid being incompetent in her job but also to not hold a grudge towards future criminals since we got a couple in the party.

Also do you any answer on what I asked about her armor?

Roleplay Frog

Ah, yes, the armor and the tricky question of giving you ideas without spoilering. Something I'ma hide from. I got a good enough idea of the character.

I'm ok with you dropping the lesser armors and your crossbow to get a better armor and focus more on the frontlines.

tuckers02

Yay!  I'm approved!

I'll move my character and responded in greater detail when I get home.  Not easy to type and format over phone.

Kathyan

Quote from: Deva on April 13, 2018, 04:07:56 PM
Ah, yes, the armor and the tricky question of giving you ideas without spoilering. Something I'ma hide from. I got a good enough idea of the character.

I'm ok with you dropping the lesser armors and your crossbow to get a better armor and focus more on the frontlines.
Nice, I'm gonna move my character to the appropriate thread then.

Roleplay Frog


William Blake


Diabolus Lupus

Quote from: Deva on April 13, 2018, 02:40:45 PM
Perra "Bearclaw" Baharoosh

I am still not satisfied with the backstory you send to me. Review my first posts suggestions and consider updating. I am happy to answer any unclarities.

What is unsatisfactory about my backstory?

And which post/s are you referring to? The only post I found with 'suggestions' for my character specifically asked about expanding fetishes, which I figured was covered by being open to exploration to pretty much anything not on my dislikes list.

William Blake


tuckers02

Quote from: Deva on April 13, 2018, 02:40:45 PM
Azderal

Disdain for being revealed in conjunction with fighting for bitter life when confronted with lewdities leaves the character a bit teethering on the edge of 'too extreme'. I have to advice you to tread with caution in that regard. We're meeting for darker themes, yes.. but also erotica. Remember, that for a character to feel misery and despair, they also have to have hope. You propably know that too ofc, but it bears repeating.

I wanted to point out where my mind is on this.  I don't see the disdain for being revealed is due to modesty or lewdness.  Azderal is okay with nakedness in general.  If anyone else is nude, it won't bother her.  Sex in itself holds no stigma with her.  Having no memory of civilized life, she doesn't understand the contempt with public nudity or sexuality that most sentients have.  As far as Az, if it doesn't hurt, if it feels good, then it makes her happy.  Not to mention that Zral is a total pervert and will say things that even Azderal would be too ashamed to say.  But since Zral is a figment of her imagination, that's more like her having the sense to not say what she's thinking.

That said, her disgust and insecurities center around her scars.  She hates her scars.  She wishes she could just get rid of them.  She'd cut them off if they wouldn't just make bigger scars.  That's what she's trying to hide.  She doesn't want to see them as they remind her of the torture she went through.  She doesn't want others to see them because she thinks they're ugly/hideous.  That is the reason she won't remove her hooded robe (which is all she wears since form fitting clothes like shirts and pants just don't feel right or comfortable).  So if someone tries to forcibly remove the robe or show undesirable attention toward them, that's when she'll fight to keep them covered.  But once the covering is removed, there's really nothing further to fight for.  And if she feels secure enough by those around her that her scars are not the vile taint that she currently believes they are, then she can be talked into baring those scars of her own accord...which is one of the goals I'm hoping will be achieved as the game progresses.

Quote from: Deva on April 13, 2018, 02:40:45 PM
Now, to dig into your backstory. I like the subtle implications, the literary devices, also, definitly a possibility of a character, a dark fate, that few dared to explore. To me, sounds like a deliberate attempt to make a broken soul, albeit by one not quite skilled enough for the process, to the characters luck.


Thank you.  I worked hard on it and I wanted to do something different.  This was a lot of fun to do even though it was hard work.  The features, backstory, and random characteristics all intertwine and feed on each other to make the cohesive character.  The harrowing event I had already decided what that was going to be.  But the quirk, personality trait, ideal, bond, flaw, and trinket were all rolled randomly (I admit I did switch the results for the bond and flaw because the bond I rolled couldn't work with the character concept).  I then had to come up with a specific reason why each of those manifested in Azderal for the background.  My favorite was the quirk, the imaginary companion, and so I created Zral and why he existed.  I'm still working on integrating the watch somehow.  I also used the background to decide which stats were my dump stats and then decide why they were the dump stats.  Even the Disciplines and skills I chose were RP choices over benefits.  The Adaptive Body powers are pretty useless at low levels but the focus fit the character concept.  Also there are better Disciplines than Crown of Disgust but that fit best with her background.

I tried to keep what exactly happened to her vague for several reasons.  First, it's already dark.  I didn't want to go even darker by going into detail.  Second, she doesn't talk about what happened.  The only two that know what actually happened is Azderal and the Chain Devil.  One can speculate what happened to her by the scars and her behavior, but whether that speculation is true or not can only be validated by those two.  Third, This is not about what happened to her.  That was just a means to an end.  This story is about who she is now and who she will become despite her history.

I don't want to speculate about the Chain Devil's motives.  For one, it really doesn't matter.  At least it doesn't to Azderal.  What was done, yes.  Why, not really.  It was done, it's over, knowing why really won't change anything.  And also, it keeps the limitation to the DM to a minimum.  If the DM chooses to bring that NPC into the game, he doesn't have to worry about trying to match my personal idea of it.  I mean, other than being a Chain Devil that kept Azderal captive and tortured her, there's no real detail about it...though I did elude to it being a 'him' in her background but that can be easily explained away as her madness and Deva could make it a female, futa, genderless, or could change reproductive organs at will.  Maybe the Chain Devil had a cloaca.

Quote from: Deva on April 13, 2018, 02:40:45 PM
The character sheet checks out in the 'WTF do they do' way psions do, either way.

Yeah, I had to read through the mystic class a few times to get a good understanding of it myself.  But once you get through all the convoluted wordiness, it's fairly simple to compare it to other classes, mostly spell casters.

Psi Points: Every level has a certain number of psi points (pp) a day.  2nd level has 6.  Each level also has a limit that tells the maximum number of pp for one power.  2nd level has 2.  So I can use 1 point per power 6 times a day, 2 points per power 3 times a day, or mix and match.  But I can't use 3 points on a power because my limit is 2.  At 3rd level, I get 14 pp per day and have a limit of 3.  One of my features also allows me to heal 1 HP for every PP I use up to maximum HP so every time I use a power I heal myself.

Talents: Talents are basically the same thing as Cantrips.  They are at-will and don't use PP.  I know a certain number of them per level.

Disciplines: I get a certain number of Disciplines each level.  At 2nd level I get 3.  At 3rd level I'll get 4.  Each Discipline has a focus and a list of powers.
I'll go over the powers first.  Every Discipline has a power that uses 2 or less pp, one that uses 3 pp, one that uses 5 pp, then there are some that use 6 or even 7 pp.  That means I can only use the powers that are 2 or less at 2nd level and won't be able to use the ones that are 3 or more until I gain the appropriate level.

Some powers have a set number of PP  You use that amount of PP to activate the power and it has a static effect.  For example, I can use 2 of my 6 PP to activate 'Environmental Adaptation'.  Then for the next hour, the creature I touched ignores extreme heat or cold (but not fire or cold damage).

Some powers have a varying number of PP.  The more PP I use, the more powerful the power.  For example, Mend Wounds has 1-7psi.  That means I can use either 1 or 2 PP to activate it at 2nd level, or 1, 2 or 3 at 3rd level.  Every PP I use increases the amount healed by 1d8.  So 1d8 hp using 1 point, 2d8 using 2 point, and so on.  This is similar to preparing 'Cure Wounds' in higher level spell slots to make it more powerful.

Focuses:  Each Discipline has a focus.  A focus is like a feature, an ability that is always active and doesn't use PP or concentration.  The difference is that you can only have one focus active at a time and you have to use a bonus action to change your focus.

For example, I have 3 focuses for the 3 Disciplines I have.  I can only have one active at a time but can change which one is active on my turn as a bonus action.  So most of the time I'll have the Adaptive Body focus active which makes it so I don't have to eat, breath, or sleep.  When we enter a battle, I'll switch to the Crown of Disgust focus which makes every square within 5' of me difficult terrain for any enemy that isn't immune to being frightened.  If someone falls below 0 hit points and is dying, I'll activate my Psionic Restoration to stabilize them with a touch.  Then the next turn I'll switch back to the Crown of Disgust, then after the battle I'll switch back to the Adaptive Body.

Next level I'll get a 4th Discipline so I'll have 4 focuses to switch between.

Roleplay Frog

Quote from: Diabolus Lupus on April 13, 2018, 05:54:46 PM
What is unsatisfactory about my backstory?

And which post/s are you referring to? The only post I found with 'suggestions' for my character specifically asked about expanding fetishes, which I figured was covered by being open to exploration to pretty much anything not on my dislikes list.

I am referring to my very first post, the one that describes the setting and more impotantly contains code for a backstory in which I make clear what I want your backstory to tell me about your character, if however you want a detailed answer:
In the pm you send me, you adequately describe your characters growing up and their strength, but pay little attention to their motivations beyond revenge. Now, revenge alone as driving force can work.. but not for a CG character.
You don't express their hopes and fears, nor do you give a reason for their eventual failing. You don't even devote a word to how they felt, having their entire village destroyed (presumambly as a child?) and being raised by strangers. Did they feel like they didn't belong? Did they embrace it all the more to cope? I don't even mind the generic backstory, of a doomed hometown, set out to take revenge on the doome' but between this and you simply posting your character when I asked for more detail before, I am growing convinced that you are either unable or unwilling to pay closer attention to what I write. Unsuprising this does not bode well for a future roleplay with me as your DM. I will give you one last attempt to impress me with a story that tells me what a character Perra is, if you want to take it.

QuoteAzderal is okay with nakedness in general.  If anyone else is nude, it won't bother her.  Sex in itself holds no stigma with her.  Having no memory of civilized life, she doesn't understand the contempt with public nudity or sexuality that most sentients have.  As far as Az, if it doesn't hurt, if it feels good, then it makes her happy.  Not to mention that Zral is a total pervert and will say things that even Azderal would be too ashamed to say.

This helps alleviate my concerns, thanks. I was marginally misunderstanding her there.

High level healing magic could actually fix 'em scars up too, but we're likely beyond that scope as lvl 2's for now. *chuckles*

QuoteThis was a lot of fun to do even though it was hard work.

I can tell.
It reads to me as if you excell in restricting creativity, haven't often seen folks make use of those random backround roll things, less so as more than a 'ok I rolled it, done with that' deal, but they seem to work for ya. ^^
Don't you worry about the watch, that thing sounded like something for me to pounce on on first read, similiar to cross-dressing-cowboys dead man walking thing and bad-day-elfs secret desire for a heroic tale. (Until I played with you for a few days and properly memorized them names you'll get codenames. Yours is 'torture-deluxe'. Just as with Cross dressing cowboy, Ellie?.. err. anyway, don't expect a sacrifice of rp over build going to waste.. though I first need a better idea of how 5.0 psions do in a party with your setup. ^^

QuoteThird, This is not about what happened to her.  That was just a means to an end.  This story is about who she is now and who she will become despite her history.

Nothing to do but nod there. I do have to respect you putting that work into setting up a character yet being clearly aware of the purpose of a backstory.

QuoteMaybe the Chain Devil had a cloaca.

Well just for that one I'm -so- tempted to reveal one of the settings driving aspects to you.. but not yet. *chuckles* The way I set up my world, I can use anything and nothing from the characters worlds as I please. Yes, your ultimate trial could be a fight with your literal old Devil.. but that would be too easy, we both know that. *winks*

Also, was half joking about the psion, not that I mind your explanation, haven't seen much of them in the fifth, but I was one of the few DM's/Players that enjoyed psions in 3.5 and pathfinder, for their refreshing value alone. If a group of players seemed in unrest and too experienced with the generic spellcaster devil whathave you enemy, drop in a psion, it'll either make them worry about or angry at the villain.. either is a win for me.

*Flails a bit* tinkered out the first post in my head already... don't blame me if I put up a first post already, we do have four and... *nodponders* Its easy to have people wake up a moment later than others.